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41. Netherworld
OB-LitOB-Lit: Old Babylonian literary texts — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) ana Ištar bēlet er-ṣ[é-tim] RIME 4, 616: 1 “for Ištar, the lady of the netherw[orld]”. new
SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) ištu i-⸢rat⸣ KI-tì išīḫa diʾu Ludlul II 52 eBL “diʾu -head ache emanated (lit.: grew) from the edge(s) of the netherworld”. new
SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) qāt der-⸢ṣe⸣-tú Sakikkû IV 43 “hand of the netherworld”. See also Sakikkû XL: 20 (30 in Scurlock 2014, 259); cf. the logogr. vars. Sakikkû XIII: 4 (qāt KI-ti) and Sakikkû XL: 51–56 (63–68 in Scurlock 2014, 261, reading differently ŠU DINGIR DIN) (qāt dKUR). new
SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) (comm.) ⸢d⸣[kù-bu ? : dKù-su (...) K]Ù ⸢:*⸣ KI-tim : SU : naṣāri CunMon. 49/2, 140: 6f. For the reading SU instead of BA see Jiménez/Schmidtchen 2017, 233. new
22. Earth
OB-LitOB-Lit: Old Babylonian literary texts — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) ištī er-ṣe-tum damī qarrādī Zimrī-Līm Epic i 25 SEAL “the earth drank the blood of the warriors”. See also Zimrī-Līm Epos ii 16. new
SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) ēma šaknat KI-tim ⸢rit⸣pāšū šamāmū šamšu uštappâ gīra innapḫu mû illakū iziqqu šāru Ludlul V 77 eBL “wherever there is earth (or) the heavens are spread out (above), (wherever) the sun light becomes visible (or) the fire (god) becomes ignited, (wherever) water is running (or) the wind blows”. new