ḫammāttu
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Meanings:
stone desert (?)
de:German: Deutsch Steinwüste (?)
Distribution: MB-NuziMB-Nuzi: Middle Babylonian texts from Nuzi (ca. 1500–1200 BCE), SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE), NBNB: Neo Babylonian (ca. 1000–626 BCE)
Grammar:
pos: subst.Substantivepattern: PaRRāStPerformer of the verbal content, denoting professions and other habitual (mostly criminal) actions
Etymology: Inherited Cf. Arabic ḥammād(a) “Steinwüste” Dozy 1967 vol. I 320b.
2Attestations
SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) issu muḫḫi piʾāte ša RN ittumuš ina libbi ḫa-ma-te eqli namrāṣi artedi RIMA 2, 173: 47 “moving on from the mouth of FN, I continued through the stone desert(?), a difficult terrain”. Cf. Gelb 1961, 27 fn. 3.
NBNB: Neo Babylonian (ca. 1000–626 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) mār šiprika ub[aʾʾa] ḫiṣbi ⸢ŠÀ⸣ ḫa-mat-ti OIP 114, 72: 12 “I am loo[king for] your messenger, (it is like searching) a chip of stone in the stone desert(?)”. new