katāmu

Commentaries

SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) (comm.) GG-stem (Grundstamm/Basic stem) [Š]Ú : a-ra-pu : ŠÚ : katāmu CunMon. 49/2, 159 r. 8′. Commentary Sakikkû IV 94(?) (preserves IGI II-šú [...] only). ^new

SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) (comm.) GG-stem (Grundstamm/Basic stem) šulbušūšu⸢ma⸣ [ka-at-mu-šú-ma ? : šulbušu : ka]-ta-mu CunMon. 49/2, 317 r. 5′f. “they (viz., representational figurines) are clothed for him (means) [they are covered for him(?) (since) to clothe (means) to c]over”. Commentary Sakikkû XXXIV (unknown entry). ^new

OB-LitOB-Lit: Old Babylonian literary texts GG-stem (Grundstamm/Basic stem) ka-at-ma inā[šu] CUSAS 32, 28a: 6 ↗SEAL “it’s (scil. the unborn child’s) eyes are covered”.

SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) GG-stem (Grundstamm/Basic stem) šumma šamšatu ša ginâ īnāša kàt-mu-ma šūtu rakbat PIHANS 73, 18 i 2 (EAE) ↗eBL “if the eyes of the face of a normal solar disk are covered and it rides the south (wind)”. Referred to solar eclipses moving from south to north; cf. Fincke 2014, 112. ^new

SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) GG-stem (Grundstamm/Basic stem) kī petê u ka-ta-mi ṭēmšina šitni Ludlul II 43 ↗eBL “within a moment, their (scil. the people’s) mind is changed”. Diff. Hätinen 2022a (“What (the gods) intend for people changes at the blinking of an eye”) and Oshima 2014, 89 (“In a wink (lit.: like opening and closing), their luck (i.e. people ' s fate) constantly changes.”).

SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) GG-stem (Grundstamm/Basic stem) ⸢lib⸣bī edil peḫi mašqûʾa ⸢ar⸣kat bubūtī ka-tim urʾu[d]ī Ludlul II 87 ↗eBL “my stomach was locked (and) my watering vessel sealed up, my hunger persisted(?) (and) my throat was closed”. See Oshima 2014, 90f.; Hätinen 2022a.

DULSBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) GG-stem (Grundstamm/Basic stem) šumma īn imittišu maḫṣatma DUL-ma lā ipette Sakikkû V 60′ “if his right eye is affected and thus closed and he cannot open (it)”. See also Sakikkû V 61′, 63′f. ^new

MB-LitMB-Lit: Middle Babylonian literary texts — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) GtnGtn-stem (G with tan-infix, iterative) ūja KA-ša ik-ta-na-at!-tam LAOS 9, 254 no. Iraq 31 pl. V-VIa: 43 ↗SEAL “woe keeps covering her mouth”. reading following Zomer 2018, 255. ^new

SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) DD-stem (Doubled stem/Intensive) ṣāltumma šut⸢ta⸣tu₄ šeṭ⸢ītu⸣ dūru abru mu-kàt-ti-mu gārîšu Counsels of Wisdom: 40 ↗eBL “strife is a wide pitfall, an embracing wall that conceals his opponent”. For the notation of -u and -i in st. cstr. in OB lit. texts see also Streck 2022 § 5.187.

DULSBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) (comm.) DD-stem (Doubled stem/Intensive) DUL-ma ú-ka-at-tam-ma CunMon. 49/2, 213: 2. Commentary Sakikkû X 1. ^new

SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) DtDt-stem (D with t-infix) pīja ša uk-ta-at-ti-mu ṣabā[r]iš aš[ṭu] Ludlul III 90 ↗eBL “my mouth, which was closed (lit.: covered) and which was (too) st[iff] for quick moveme[nt]”. Restorations according to Oshima 2014, 98.

SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) DtnDtn-stem (D with tan-infix, iterative) šaddiḫā aḫāja ku-te-et-tu-ma (|| [ku]-ta-at-t[u-ma] ; ku-ta-at-tu-mu; ki-ta-⸢at-ta⸣; ⸢ki⸣-ta-[...]) ītaḫzā Ludlul I 76 ↗eBL “(once) they were far-reaching, my arms are (now) constantly hidden (and) clasped together”. For another change of a ＜ e in a verbal form in Ludlul cf. the spelling i-te-ed-du (var.: i-⸢te⸣-ed-di) (nadû III) in Ludlul I: 67. The deviating form ki-ta-⸢at-ta⸣ (STT 1, 32 r 4′) is perhaps to be understood as a scribal error. Diff. Oshima 2014, 83 and 214 “my wide-reaching arms were bound together”. ^new

SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) NtnNtn-stem (N with tan-infix, iterative) DUL.DUL u ittanablakkat Sakikkû IV 104 “he keeps getting overwhelmed (by the ailment) and tosses and turns restlessly”. ^new

DU₆SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) NtnNtn-stem (N with tan-infix, iterative) šumma KI.MIN( ūm ištēn maruṣ)ma DU₆.DU₆ Sakikkû XV 87′ “if ditto (he is sick for one day) and he is constantly overwhelmed”. Corresponds to 80′ in Heeßel 2000. Note the spelling DU₆ unstead of DUL (NA manuscript). ^new

DULSBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) (comm.) NtnNtn-stem (N with tan-infix, iterative) DUL.DUL-ma it-ta-⸢nak-tam-ma⸣ CunMon. 49/2, 262: 13. Commentary Sakikkû XVIII 29′ (38′ in Heeßel 2000). ^new