dādu II
11. An animal
OB-LitOB-Lit: Old Babylonian literary texts ninda-ni gìr-pad-rá dalla ḫé-⸢a⸣ zi-ni ḫé-kéš || a-ka-šu lū da-du-ma lipsiqšu BWL, pl. 68 UM 29-15-330 4a' SEAL “his food shall be d. (sum.: bright(?) bone) so that it may choke(?) him”. akaššu ＜ akalšu; lipsiqšu is unclear (s. AHw. s.v. pasāqu), a by-form of pašāqu is unlikely in view of the vowel class.
22. In birth incantations
OB-LitOB-Lit: Old Babylonian literary texts kīma da-⸢di⸣-im šulup rāman⸢ka⸣ CUSAS 32, 28: 17 SEAL 7056 “pull yourself out like a d.” For interpretation cf. Wasserman/Zomer 2022, 76 (“like a good boy”); George 2013 (d. as euphemism for penis); Stol 2000, 11 who also opts for the the d.-animal, but interprets the metaphor as emerging from water. With Wasserman 2016, 92 this and similar passages in birth incantations are based on a play with homonyms: The “darling” (dādu I) shall come out (of the womb) as smoothly as dādu-shellfish (comes out of its shell).
OB-LitOB-Lit: Old Babylonian literary texts kīma da-di-[im] šūṣī rāmanka AML, 14: 26 “make yourself come out like a d .” Birth incantation.
53. In extispicy
OBOB: Old Babylonian (ca. 2000–1600 BCE) šumma šulmum kīma da-di-im ARM 26/1, 66 no. 3: 21 ARCHIBAB “if the cleft is like a d.”
SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) šumma ina arkat naṣrapti padānu ša imitti kīma ÁBku₆ CT 20, 32: 57 eBL “if the right ‘path’ behind the ‘crucible’ is like a d.” pān tākalti (Koch-Westenholz 2000, no. 57).
SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) šumma nidi kussî kīma ÁBku₆ Koch-Westenholz 2000, 374: 180 “if the throne base is like a d .” pān tākalti.
SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) [šumma] padānu kīma ÁBku₆ Koch-Westenholz 2000, 53: 10 eBL “if the path is like a d.” padānu commentary 10.
SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) šumma manzāzu kīma ÁBku₆ (var.: kīma ÁBku₆-ma kibiršu nabalkut) Koch-Westenholz 2000, 19: 35 “if the presence is like a d. (var.: (it is) like a d., its edge turned)”. manzāzu commentary I.
24. In astr. omina
SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) šumma Sîn qarnāšu kīma ÁBku₆ ACh Supp. 2, 6: 9 eBL “if the moon’s horns are like a d.”
SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) (comm.) ÁBku₆ : da-du eddāma napalkā CCP 3.1.5.D: 11 CCP “ÁB ku₆ means ‘ d.’, they are pointed and they are wide”. commentary on EAE 5, 17-23(24).