ḫaḫḫašu
2 Lexical
Commentaries
SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) (comm.) ummu ⸢lā?⸣ ⸢ḫa-ḫa?-šá ?⸣ = ummu ⸢(x)? NU ?⸣ ⸢ dan⸣-nu CunMon. 49/2, 73: 17 “not- ḫ .-fever (refers to) a [n]on(?)-severe fever”. Commentary Sakikkû III 6. new
SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) (comm.) la ḫa-aḫ-šá : i-su! SAG II-šú emmu : šanîš lā Ú[Ḫ : la ḫa(-aḫ)]-ḫa-šú : lā ṣar-ḫa-áš : ⸢ ÚḪ⸣ [: ṣarāḫu?] CunMon. 49 2, 117 o. 5. Commentary Sakikkû III 6. new
1In lā ḫaḫḫaš, in diagnostic texts
SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) nakkapātūšu umma la-aḫ-⸢ḫa-ḫa⸣-šá (|| lā＜ḫa＞-aḫ-ḫa-šá) Sakikkû III 6 “his temples (have) not- ḫ .-fever”. Cf. Stol 2007, 10 and the note in Schmidtchen 2021, 265 incl. fn. 72.
Discussion
Note that the term occurs exclusively in conjunction with the supposed negation lā (but never in the logographic form NU). Other instances that were interpreted as independent uses of the lemma turned out to be logographic: ḪA.ZA (for kullu III), see Schmidtchen 2021 In Stol 2010, it is suggested that the term contrasts with or differs from ummu ṣarḫu, meaning “flaming/burning fever.” Given its limited use in Old Babylonian lexical sources (concerning boiling or heating water) and medical texts, the word appears to be a highly technical and scientific term.