baltāmmu
ALLLAD includes all known attestations of this wordNEWNot documented in AHw or CAD
Variant: baltām
Meanings:
balm (prob. balm of Gilead, Commiphora opobalsamum)
de:German: Deutsch Balsam (wahrscheinlich Balsammyrrhe, Commiphora opobalsamum)
fr:French: Français baume (prob. baume de Gilead, Commiphora opobalsamum)
ar:Arabic: العربية بلسم, على الأرجح بلسم جيلياد Commiphora opobalsamum
Distribution: LBLB: Late Babylonian (ca. 626 BCE – 100 CE)
Domain: Aromatics
Grammar:
pos: subst.Substantivepattern: PaRāSinfinitive
Etymology: Borrowed ＜ WSem.West Semitic For cognates cf. SEDo; in Akkadian, WSem. ś is rendered as /lt/ (See Jursa 1995, 156f.; Kogan 2011, 78).
31. Attestations
LBLB: Late Babylonian (ca. 626 BCE – 100 CE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) šim⸢ba-al-ta⸣-am Jursa 2009, 151 BM 77429 22. In list of aromatics for the censer. new
LBLB: Late Babylonian (ca. 626 BCE – 100 CE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) šimba-al-tam-[(mu)] Jursa 2009: 156f. BM 73126. In list of aromatics for anointing oil. new
LBLB: Late Babylonian (ca. 626 BCE – 100 CE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) šimba-al-tam-mu Jursa 2009: 156f. BM 75774 “In list of aromatics for anointing oil.” new
12. As female personal name
LBLB: Late Babylonian (ca. 626 BCE – 100 CE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) fBal-ta-am-mu Wunsch 1995/96, 57 no. 7: 7, 11. new
Discussion
See Jursa 2009, 156f. The LB attestations are the earliest found in non-biblical texts. See SAD B 8.