irtu
1 Lexical
OB-LexOB-Lex: Old Babylonian lexical texts — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) GALAM = i-ir-tum ZA 94, 230 i 20. equation with galam (“step, staircase”) is not attested elsewhere, see Krebernik ib. p. 234. new
31. Breast
SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) ir-tum imḫaṣū tulê! it⸢tērū⸣ Ludlul II 62 eBL “they struck the chest, they smote the breast(s)”. Diff. see BWL 42: 62 (“They struck [my chest,] drubbing my breast”), Oshima 2014 (“They struck the chest and took off the ribs? (i.e. weakened),”).
SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) ušṭībma i-ra-tu (∥ i-rit-ti; i-ra-ti) ša m[al]īliš uḫta[llûša] Ludlul III 97 eBL “he improved (my) chest and made it (again) (as) cheerful as a pipe”. Diff. Oshima 2014, 98f. (“he relieved the chest which he made sing like a reed pipe,” reading uḫ-tal-⸢lil⸣ at the end of the line) and Hätinen 2022 (“He made fair my songs, which it warbled like a flute”). Note the poet. form irat(u/ī).
SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) šumma šību GABA-šu dūmat BPO 2, 72: 9 (EAE) eBL “if the chest of the Old Man darkens”. new
12. As a cut of meat (brisket)
OA-LitOA-Lit: Old Assyrian literary texts 7 līmē qarrādūʾa i-ra-tim ēkulū ana warkim i-ir-tum lā ikšudma alapšu Kušamanīʾam ša kussîšu iṭbuḫma ana warkim i-ir-tám iddin OA Sarg.: 31, 32, 36 SEAL “My 7 thousand heroes ate briskets. For the last (man) there was not enough brisket. He slaughtered his ox from Kušam(m)anu belonging to his seat and gave to the last (man) a brisket.”
33. Edge
SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) ištu i-⸢rat⸣ KI-tì išīḫa diʾu Ludlul II 52 eBL “diʾu -headache grew from the edge of the netherworld”.
SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) šumma GABAmeš šá GÌR II-šú ṣalmā Sakikkû XIV 239′ “if the arches(?) of his feet are black”. See the partly parallel Sakikkû XV 72′ (65′ in Heeßel 2000). new
SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) GABAmeš Umeš-šú puṭṭurā Sakikkû XI 106′ “the backs of his fingers are limp”. See similar also Sakikkû XV 34′ (28′ in Heeßel 2000, noting GABAmeš ša qātīšu). new
14. A song
OB-LitOB-Lit: Old Babylonian literary texts 4 i-ra-a-tum AOAT 267, 193 iv 16 SEAL “4 irtu -songs”.