gallû
41. A demon
OB-LitOB-Lit: Old Babylonian literary texts ūmum lemnum ga-lu-um šipir DN UET 6/2, 395: 12 (= Lambert 1990) “an evil spirit, a g. , messenger of DN”. ga-al-la-šu ib. 16; ana g[a-li-im] ib. 17; DNf ga-la-i-iš-šu tasaqqaršum ib. r. 14 “DNf addresses his g.”
OB-LitOB-Lit: Old Babylonian literary texts u gal-lu-šu-nu [En]nugi Atr. OB I 10 eBL “and their (var.: your) g. was Ennugi”. Var. gal-lu-ku-n[u] “your g.” ib. l. 127. Note that Ennugi is elsewhere titled gugallu “canal inspector” (see Shehata 2001, 27).
SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) ušāḫizki kalba ṣalma gal-la-ki||ka MesCiv. 17, 71: 14 (Lam.) “I have made you seize a black dog as your g .” cf. Farber 2014, 146f.
SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) ⸢šīd*⸣ ⸢dum⸣[q]išu?* ana gal-le-e iturraššu Counsels of Wisdom: 19 eBL “his bene[volent protective spi]rit(?) will turn for him into a g. -demon”. Note the different translation in Földi 2022 (“His protective spirit will turn him over to demons”). However, this and similar phrases usually refer to the change of the nature of a protective spirit.
22. A disease
SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) q[āt ..]. muttallik sūqi qāt Išum gal-la [ilī ?] Sakikkû XXXIII 76 “ha[nd of ... (who) roams the street; hand of Išum, guard [of the gods(?)]”. For galla ilī “guard of the gods” as epithet of Ḫendursagga/Išum cf. Borger 1969, 14: § XXVII (bil. Zipad-incantations). new
SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) [šumma simmu šikinšu kīma] ⸢ṣirip⸣timma* saḫi[p* ina sā]ḫipi⸢šu*⸣ panūšu ṣulma nadû gal-lu-ú (|| gal-lu-u) šumšu Sakikkû XXXIII 56 “[if the characteristic of a lesion is (that it is) like] a ṣ .-reddening and it(?) is spre[ad, (and) [from(?) what spre]ads (over) it(?) its surface produces a black spot – gallû is its name”. Restorations according to the parallel K. 3526 r 6f. Read perhaps rather saḫīpu than sāḫipu. new