dimmatu

Commentaries

SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) (comm.) amēlu šū ina kišpī dummâ [... dīmtu ?] : di-im-mat : damāma CunMon. 49/2, 317 r. 6′f. “that man, has been brought to tears by sorcery [... tear(?)] (refers to) wailing (derived from) to wail”. Commentary Sakikkû XXXIV (unknown entry). ^new

OBOB: Old Babylonian (ca. 2000–1600 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) ⸢bītī ana ⸣ bīt ⸢ di ⸣- ma-tim uttēr anāku i-libbišu i-di-ma-tim wašbāku OBO 278, 357: 10, 11 “he has turned my house into a house of wailing. I dwell in it while wailing”. Cf. di-im-ma-tim ib. 9 and dim-ma-tim K.4617: 15 || l. 10 (Guichard 2015, 364). Cf. dīmtum. ^new

OB-LitOB-Lit: Old Babylonian literary texts ammīnimma rāšī aka[l]im di-ma-tam isaḫḫur ZA 110, 44 iii 29 ↗SEAL “why does the one who gets food go around in moaning?”

MB-LitMB-Lit: Middle Babylonian literary texts akal de₄-ma-a-ti u bikīti MesCiv. 17, 292: 32 (Lam.) “food of wailing and weeping”. Cf. SB ib 90 Lam I 189: akal dím-ma-te||ti u bikīti.