diqdiqqu
4Attestations
OB-LitOB-Lit: Old Babylonian literary texts al-ti-ri-gu || si-bi-di-ga-ar CHANE 87, 327 YBC.9886. Perhaps corrupt.
SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) [muš]endu-uq-du-⸢uq⸣ || di-iq-di!-qu ina muḫḫi nīnî iltakan! pelâšu CHANE 87, 334: 2 eBL “a wren laid its egg on top of mint”.
SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) mušen du-uq-⸢du-uq⸣ akû lapnu CHANE 87, 338: 38 eBL “the forlorn, poor wren”. Cf. also ib. 334: 3, ib. 334: 5, ib. 334: 12; ib. 336: 25; ib. 338: 40.
SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) diq-diq-qu ina muḫḫi pēri kī uš[ibu] umma talīm idka an-a-a-ma ina šiqi mê erā[qma?] pēru ana diq-diq-qi ip[pal] kī tušibu ul īdēma kalāka mī[nu] kī tatbû ul īdēma ṭēnka mī[nu] BWL, 216–218 BM.46735 50–54 “when a wren sat on top of a young date palm: “Oh dear, set out! In the ditch of water go aw[ay!]” The young palm an[swered] the wren: “You did not know where you sat! What [is] your judgment? You did not know where you got up from! What [is] your mind?””. See also with further lit. Jiménez 2017, 327: fn. 773. new
Discussion
On d. “wren” see Veldhuis 2004, 217f.; Jiménez 2017, 357–360.