irsu
HAPAXHapax legomenon: this word is attested only onceNEWNot documented in AHw or CADREVIEW
Meanings:
(a kind of small cattle)
Distribution: OBOB: Old Babylonian (ca. 2000–1600 BCE)
Domain: Domesticated animals; animals
Grammar:
pos: subst.Substantive
1Attestations
OBOB: Old Babylonian (ca. 2000–1600 BCE) ina panītimma aššum i-ir-si ša PN ša qātāšu laptā ša ina haṣīrim ša PN ibaššû ARM 27, 63: 5 “previously, my lord wrote me about conducting the irsu-sheep(?) of PN, whose hands are unclean, which are in the fold of PN”. See Heimpel 2003, 431 fn. 76 for the interpretation of the word.