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12Attestations
OB-LitOB-Lit: Old Babylonian literary texts ša … ašar i-nu-um lā immarušu puzram ušaṣbatušu BagM 34, 150: xv 10 “who(ever) hides it (scil. the stela), where no eye can see it”.
OB-LitOB-Lit: Old Babylonian literary texts — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) i-na-šu pursītum AML, 109: 2 SEAL “his (the snake's) eyes are a bowl”. Cf. pursīt damī “bowl of blood”, referring to eyes in eye incantations (ib. p. 384; Zomer 2018, 262). new
SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) (ša) i-nu-šú (∥ e-nu-uš-šú) ina karašê ušatbi maqta Ludlul I 14 eBL “whose glance raises the fallen from disaster”. See diff. Oshima 79; Lenzi 2023, 65 (inūšu “at the time, then”) and Hätinen 2022: 14 following Or. 83, 276; Mayer 1990, 29f. (ênu “to eye” with only two attestations of which one represents the present instance). new
SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) errub ēkallišma iṣabburā i-na-a-ti Ludlul I 81 eBL “(when) I was about to enter into the palace, eyes were squinting (distrustfully at me)”. Note the rare pl. inātu. new
SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) IGI pagri Sakikkû XXVIII 3 “eye of a corpse”. Corresponds to 7–10 in Heeßel 2000. new
SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) ina nīš i-ni-ka kabbatim ana lipit qātija šū⸢quru⸣ ḫadîš naplis[ma] RINBE 1/1, 231 iii 29 “look joyfully with your venerable glance upon my very valuable handiwork”.
SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) [..]. IGI II.meš(-)šá ana aḫâti šaknu? KAL 3, 79: 2 eBL VAT.10752 “[(whose?) ..]. (of?) her eyes is(?) directed towards the outsides”.
SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) aššu maṣṣarti ana māt Sūḫi īnu (text: IGI II)petīti ša māt Sūḫi šī RIMB 2, 298 iii 18 “regarding the guard for the land of Sūḫu, it is the open eye of the land of Sūḫu”.
SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) na-šú-u ⸢ēni⸣ RINAP 2, 440: 10 RINAP “(the great gods,) who appoint (rulers)”. see also RINAP 2, 405 i 26; cf. nīs īni.
SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) tēʾāti igi II-a-a ša uštaš⸢bi⸣ḫ šibiḫ mū[ti] ušatbi šār bēri unammir niṭl[ī] Ludlul III 82 eBL “(from) my clouded eyes which were(?) covered with the pall (lit.: deposit) of death – he removed (that pall) a thousand leagues (away and) cleared [my] vision”. Cf. the emendation of the verbal form to uštašbiḫā in Hätinen 2022b (“The cloudiness of my eyes, which were wrapped in the shroud of death”). Considering the parallel structure in the following couplet Ludlul III 84f., the body parts mentioned seem to be in casus pendens followed by the actions of Marduk in the second sentence each.
SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) ⸢pūtu⸣ iqīlū inaʾʾilū IGI II-ia Ludlul II 60 eBL “they befell the forehead (and) made my eyes brim (with tears)”. Diff. Hätinen 2022a (“my eyes ran a flood” with emendation inaʾʾilā!).
SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) balṣāma ul inaṭṭal i-na-a-a petâma ul išemmâ uznāja Ludlul II 73 eBL “my eyes are in a stare but (they) cannot see, open are my ears but they cannot hear”. Note the wrong numerus of the verbal form.