kamʾatu
5Attestations
OBOB: Old Babylonian (ca. 2000–1600 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) awīlī ana kam-a-tim leqêm aṭrudma umma anākuma pīqat ka-am-ú itât āl [im] ibaššû ... illikūma gibʾī tamšīl ka-am-i ublūnimma awīlī šunū [ti] utēr umma anākuma ištū gibʾū ibbašû ka-am-i ātammarā illikūma ka-am-i ītammarū anūmma ka-am-i ša ublūnim [a] na ṣēr bēlija ušābilam [ka-a] m-i šināti ARM 27, 54: 6–21 ARCHIBAB “I dispatched men to collect white truffles, saying: 'Perhaps there are white truffles around the city.' … They went and brought red truffles resembling white truffles, and I turned back those men saying: 'Since there were red truffles, look everywhere for white truffles!' They went and looked everywhere for white truffles. Now I have sent to my lord the white truffles that they brought. Those [white truf]fles …”. new
OBOB: Old Babylonian (ca. 2000–1600 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) [...] Awnānājī ša ana kam-a-tim [ana? nawêm?] illikū[nim] FM 2, 34: 22 ARCHIBAB “[about(?)] the Awnāneans who went [into the steppe(?)] for the truffles.” new
OBOB: Old Babylonian (ca. 2000–1600 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) assurrema bēlī kīʾam iqabb[i] umma šūma PN ištu ūmim ša ana ḫalṣim elîm īlû ka-am-a-tim ītanakkalma ARM 35, 121: 7 “hopefully my lord won’t say the following: 'Since the day that PN went up to the upper district he is stuffing himself with truffles!'”. new
MB-UgaritMB-Ugarit: Middle Babylonian texts from Ugarit (ca. 1500–1200 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) [k]a-ma-ʾa-⸢tu⸣ PRU 6, 159: 3. Reading after Huehnergard 1987, 137. new
LBLB: Late Babylonian (ca. 626 BCE – 100 CE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) ka-ma-a-tú PIHANS 79, 18: 5. See Zadok 1997. new
Discussion
On truffles see Stol 2014; for Ebla refs. see Pasquali 2005.