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Variant: dintu, dīmtu (?), OB-LitOB-Lit: Old Babylonian literary texts dīmatu
Meanings:
tower
de:German: Deutsch Turm
fr:French: Français tour
Grammar:
pos: subst.Substantivepattern: PiSt, PīSt (?)
Etymology: Cf. PS *daymat “enclosed area,” see Kogan/Krebernik 2015, 394 (SEDo). Note Soqotri díme “sheep pen”, Mehri dēmēt “warehouse”, Arab. (Yemen) dajmah “cottage, small house” and sim. (Naumkin et al. 2016, 65). If these words are indeed cognates they suggest long ī and thus dīmtu. Note also the OAkk. st. cstr. di-im-ti, see Kogan/Markina 2019, 297.
16Attestations

OAkkOAkk: Old Akkadian (ca. 2350–2100 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) in dì-⸢im-ti⸣ [GN] CUSAS 27, 152: 5 “in the district of [GN]”. cf. MAD 5, 87: 2. new

OBOB: Old Babylonian (ca. 2000–1600 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) 10 gišdì-ma-ti-[im] … liblam AS 22, 9: 12 “(even if the Amorites) bring 10 siege towers”. new

OBOB: Old Babylonian (ca. 2000–1600 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) aššum eblī ebīḫī ša di-ma-tim u jāšibim ARM 14, 45: 5 “concerning the rope for the girdles, for the siege towers, and for the battering ram”. new

OBOB: Old Babylonian (ca. 2000–1600 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) ana gišdi-im-tim ana mīnim ītenellē ARM 26/1, 479 no. 238: 14 “why does he keep going up the tower? (He must guard himself!)”. = ARM 10, 51: 14. new

OBOB: Old Babylonian (ca. 2000–1600 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) gišdi-ma-a-ti ana GN lū šūrudū Shemshara 1, 7: 15 “let the siege towers be brought downstream to GN”. new

OBOB: Old Babylonian (ca. 2000–1600 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) jāšibum u giš[d] i-im-tum nadnūnikkum ARM 26/1, 426 no. 199: 13 “the battering ram and the tower are given to you”. new

OBOB: Old Babylonian (ca. 2000–1600 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) gišdi-im-ta-am uš-zi-iz ARM 26/2, 298 no. 416: 5 “he had set up the tower”. Cf. ARM 26/2, 273 no. 407: 7. new

OBOB: Old Babylonian (ca. 2000–1600 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) gišdi-ma-at nakr[im] ARM 27, 141: 9 “tower of the enemy”. Cf. gišdi-im-tim/tam ib. 141: 5, 7. new

OBOB: Old Babylonian (ca. 2000–1600 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) ana pan nakrim ina pan gišdi-ma-tim u eperī wašbū ARM 27, 142: 8 “they sit opposite the enemy in front of the towers and the earthwork”. Cf. ib: 22. 23. 27. new

OBOB: Old Babylonian (ca. 2000–1600 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) mušītamma di-im-ta-šu ipṭurma ARM 27, 170: 27 “he withdrew his tower at night”. new

OBOB: Old Babylonian (ca. 2000–1600 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) gišdi-im-tum ⸢šī⸣ ša ištū GN nilqûšu šaknat ARM 28, 18: 6 “the tower that we took from GN is set up”. new

OBOB: Old Babylonian (ca. 2000–1600 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) [gišdi-im-t]am šâti PN … u akkâšum ina [ddi] nakkunūši ana GN [ uš] erressim ištū ašrānum akkâšum inaddinakkunūši ARM 28, 18: 22 “that tower PN will … and he will give it to you (pl.) for your (sg. masc.) benefit. He will let it descend to GN and from there he will give it to you (pl.) for your (sg. masc.) benefit”. For add. Mari ref. see Kupper 1997, 127ff. new

OBOB: Old Babylonian (ca. 2000–1600 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) di-im-tam ša PN … ana wašāb PN₂ uštassiqū ARM 27, 164: 6 “they put in order the tower of PN as residence for PN₂”. new

OBOB: Old Babylonian (ca. 2000–1600 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) PNf utūtu ša di-im-tim ARM 9, 27 iv 26 “PNf, female gatekeeper of the tower”. In personnel list. new

SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) [… di]-ma-ti-šú ša iṭṭê u agurru RIMB 2, 283: 6 “its [to]wers which (are of/with?) bitumen and baked brick(s) […]”.

SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) [i-n]a?* bābi AN.ZA.GÀRmeš kilīli ša uqnî [ēkalla?] šuʾātu alme RIMB 2, 304 iv 22 “[with(?)] a gate (and) towers with parapets of lapis lazuli I surrounded this [palace(?)]”.

Discussion

On the various mngs. in Nuzi see Koliński 2001 with prev. lit.

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