buṭumtu

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Variant: buṭuttu, buṭuntu
Meanings:
terebinth
de:German: Deutsch Terebinthe
Grammar:
pos: subst.Substantivepattern: PuRuSt
Logogram: giš LAM.GAL
Etymology: Inherited <PSem. *buṭm(-at)-, see also Akk. buṭnu (cf. Fronzaroli 1968, 290; Kogan 2012, 236-38; SEDonline).
4Attestations

OBOB: Old Babylonian (ca. 2000–1600 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) ana KUR.RA GN ana warkat giš bu-uṭ-ma-tim parāsim awīlī […] KUR.RA GN kalâšu ittalkūnimma gišbu-ṭú-um-tum maḫṣat u annûmma gišb[u-u]ṭ-m[a-t]im nisan šattim ša ina pānīšunu ilqûnim ana ṣēr bēli[ja] ušābilam ARM 27, 123: 7, 10, 12 ARCHIBAB “[I sent] men to mount GN in order to investigate the matter of the terebinths. They went through all of GN, but the terebinth(s) had been struck, and (therefore) I have now sent to my lord the terebinths from the beginning of the year, which they had collected earlier”. new

OBOB: Old Babylonian (ca. 2000–1600 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) ana dKUR.RA allikma gišbu-ṭú-um-tam āmurma ul išar maḫṣat FM 3, 189 no. 19: 7 ARCHIBAB “I went to the mountain and inspected the terebinth(s). (The situation) was not in order. (The terebinth[s]) were struck”. new

OB-LitOB-Lit: Old Babylonian literary texts — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) lišsīʾaššumma ina bu-ṭù-um-tim lišarʾibaššum ina allānim CUSAS 32, 48: 16 SEAL “may he shout at it (the snake) in the terebinth, make it tremble in the oak”. Cf. George ib. p. 109 and CAD B 358 buṭnu a for the association of terebinth and oak. new

MB-LitMB-Lit: Middle Babylonian literary texts akal allān! u bu-ṭù!-um-⸢ta⸣ AulaOr. Suppl. 23, 14: 6 “eat(!) the oak and the pistachio!”

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