diʾu I
1 Lexical
OB-LexOB-Lex: Old Babylonian lexical texts — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) sag-búr = di-um MSL SS 1, 19: 56 (Sag) DCCLT. new
5Further Attestations
SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) […] ⸢di?-ʾi⸣ ⸢u⸣ ⸢di⸣lipti šâšu qadu ⸢kim⸣tiš[u …] RINAP 5/3, 95: 13 RINAP “[… (with?)] ⸢d .⸣-disease and anxiety, him together with hi[s fa]mily […]”. (in curse formula).
SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) [uda]ppir imḫulla ana išid šamê ana irat erṣeti ukaššid di-i Ludlul III 69 eBL “[he dr]ove the evil wind away to the horizon, he chased the diʾu-head ache away to the edge(s) of the netherworld”.
SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) kuṣṣa u zuʾta irtaši di-ḫu ēribu wāṣû ḫimiṭ ṣēti UD 7kám issallaʾma iballuṭ Sakikkû XVII 2 “(following symptoms including fever and sweat,) he develops chill and sweat – the coming (and) going d .-disease; inflammation due to sunlight; he will be infected for 7 days but he will recover”. Corresponds 4–7 in Heeßel 2000. new
SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) ina di-ʾi-i lapit Sakikkû XXII 57 “he is affected (lit.: touched) by d .-disease”. Corresponds to 67 in Heeßel 2000. new
NANA: Neo Assyrian (ca. 1000–600 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) takpertu Á.SÀG.GIG.GAdi-ʾu marṣūtu KAR, 44: 8. (incipit), see Geller 2000, 235. Cf. di-ḫu: šibṭa (var.: di-iʾ šibṭi) ib. 20. new
Discussion
For the identification as (a mild form of) malaria see the discussion in Stol 2007, 15-18; cf. already the note in CAD D 166: diʾu. Cf. also Scurlock/Andersen 2005, 59ff.