ḫabbātu I
3Attestations
OBOB: Old Babylonian (ca. 2000–1600 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) ṭēmum ša lúḫa-ab-ba-ti imqutma RATL, 147: 5 “news regarding the mercenaries have come”. new
OBOB: Old Babylonian (ca. 2000–1600 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) u ṣābum ḫa-ab-ba-t[um] ana GN ī[rub?] RATL, 138: 10 “and the bands of mercenaries have arri[ved?] in GN”. new
OBOB: Old Babylonian (ca. 2000–1600 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) tukkam ša ṣābim ḫa-ab-ba-tim ešmēma… 6 līmī ṣābum ḫa-ab-ba-tum ina GN wašib RATL, 171: 3–8 “I heard the rumor regarding the troop of mercenaries (…); a troop of 6,000 mercenaries is stationed in GN”. new
Discussion
On the secondary mng. “mercenary”, see Eidem 1991, 127-128. The existence of ḫabbātu II (＜ ḫabātu III) is morphologically possible but semantically doubtful.