gušūru

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Variant: NANA: Neo Assyrian (ca. 1000–600 BCE) gašūru
Meanings:
tree-trunk, log, beam
de:German: Deutsch gefällter Baumstamm, Balken
Distribution: OB onward(s)OB onward(s): Old Babylonian onwards (ca. 2000 BCE onwards)
Domain: Materials and substances; Objects made of wood; trees, shrubs and their wood
Grammar:
pos: subst.Substantivepattern: PuRūS (?)
Logogram: giš ÙR
Etymology: Borrowed < Sum.Sumerian (?) Also a loanword in Aramaic (gᵉšūrā), see Sokoloff 2002, 305f., Sokoloff 2009, 264.
4Attestations

OBOB: Old Babylonian (ca. 2000–1600 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) [i]na mātim [el]ītim nukurtumma [i]štū mātim elītim gišÙRḫi.a leqêm ul eleʾʾī gišÙRḫi.a ina qīšātim ša GN ibaššû 100 gišÙRḫi.a ša 1 1/2 NINDA 4 KÙŠ.ÀM u elīšma adī 2 NINDA.ÀM FM 2, 87: 4–8 ARCHIBAB “there is hostility in the upper land, therefore I cannot fetch tree-trunks from the upper land. There are tree-trunks in the forests of GN, which are 1 1/2 NINDA 4 cubits (ca. 11 m) (long) or even more up to 12 m (long)”. new

OBOB: Old Babylonian (ca. 2000–1600 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) 170 gišÙR[ḫi.a] ša 10 am-ma-àm FM 2, 35: 14 ARCHIBAB “170 tree-trunks, each 10 cubits (long)”. Cf. ib.: 5 + 9. new

MA-LitMA-Lit: Middle Assyrian literary texts — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) gu-šur (∥ [( giš)ÙR]meš ; gišgu-šur; [… -r]i) māt GN dannūti lū akkis ... ēkal bēlūtija ša <a>rammu ina gu-šur (∥ ÙRmeš māt ) GN šâtunu lū ukēn Wilcke 2010, 432 iii 33, 36 “I have indeed cut mighty beams from the land of GN ... with these beams from (the land of) GN I have supported my stately palace, which I love”. new

SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) gu-šur m[eš]erēnī ṣīrûti RINAP 3/2, 235: 9 RINAP “beams of supreme cedar trees”. new

Discussion

On N/LB see van Driel 1992, 173 (use in building work).

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