kammu III
REVIEW
Meanings:
(a metal rivet or dowel)
de:German: Deutsch (Niete oder Dübel aus Metall)
Distribution: MAMA: Middle Assyrian (ca. 1500–1000 BCE), NANA: Neo Assyrian (ca. 1000–600 BCE), LBLB: Late Babylonian (ca. 626 BCE – 100 CE)
Grammar:
pos: subst.Substantive
2Attestations
NANA: Neo Assyrian (ca. 1000–600 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) 37 ka-ma-te ! KÙ.GI ša qaqqad sisî CTN 2, 151: 1 “37 platelets of gold for a horse's head”. new
NANA: Neo Assyrian (ca. 1000–600 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) (1 quiver) 2 kam-ma-tu SAAB 13, 8: 2 “two rivets”. new
Discussion
The suggestion by Postgate/Collon 2001, 8 to understand this word as a “dome-headed” nail or tack in view of kammu II “a fungus” is unconvincing, as k.-fungus refers to mold- or lichen-like growths rather than dome-shaped mushrooms.
For MA see de Ridder 2021, 175.