karkamisû
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Meanings:
of Carchemish
Distribution: OBOB: Old Babylonian (ca. 2000–1600 BCE)
Grammar:
pos: adj.Adjective
1Attestations
OBOB: Old Babylonian (ca. 2000–1600 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) 1 GAL gullu KÙ.GI LÚ kar-ka-mi-su-úki ARM 31, 76: 1 ARCHIBAB “1 golden bowl of the man of Carchemish (?)”. See Guichard 2005, 170 n. 44. The use of LÚ is unexpected; perhaps it is to be taken as determinative and karkamisû simply means “of Carchemish(-style)”. new