kiṣru
8Attestations
MA-LitMA-Lit: Middle Assyrian literary texts ašrī bērūti ki-ṣir šadî dannūti kīma qê lusellit BagM 25, 466: 61 “distant places, a massif of mighty mountains I cut (straight) through like a string”. see also Talon 2005, 127: 57.
MA-LitMA-Lit: Middle Assyrian literary texts arḫē pašqūti ki-ṣer ḫuršāni dannūti attallakuma Wilcke 2010, 431 ii 11 “(when) I had constantly walked through narrow paths (and) a massif of mighty mountains”.
MA-LitMA-Lit: Middle Assyrian literary texts šadî dannūti ki-ṣir šapšāqi ... ītetiqma RIMA 1, 272: 40 “I had crossed mighty mountains, a rough massif (lit. of hardship)”. Note the var. parallels in RIMA 1, 244: 33–38//BagM 25, 460: 25–27 which begin instead with ḫuršānē bērūti ašar lā mēteqi šarru ajjumma (…).
MB-LitMB-Lit: Middle Babylonian literary texts — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) līpuš apu qilta ḫubūta qalla ki-iṣ-ṣa-ri itawwulū EA 359 r. 5’ SEAL “may the reeds make forest, thicket, woods, (and) knots (of branches)—they (the enemies) will be bound everywhere”. cf. also ib. r. 18’. new
SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) DNf tukšu allallû ša ana pan ki-ṣir šašmê patniš izzazzu AfO 50, 21: 14 eBL “DNf, the strong shield that faces the battle group powerfully”. new
SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) šanītu ēkallu elē[nūššu ina muḫ]ḫi ki-iṣ-ri ēpušma RIMB 2, 292: 13 “another palace I built ab[ove it (viz. the previous palace) on t]op of an embankment(?)”. see also RIMB 2, 303 iii 12; RIMB 2, 311 iii 19. The meaning “embankment” was tentatively suggested in RIMB 2, 292. Cf. kiṣir šadî “structure, bond (of natural stone); bedrock”.
SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) ki-iṣ-ri ultu Puratt[u] akširma ušēlâ RIMB 2, 298 iii 31 “I successfully(?) erected an embankment out of the Euphrates”.
SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) ikpur pulḫassinama ki-⸢ṣir⸣-ši-na ip[ṭur ?] Ludlul III 89 eBL “(my lips...) he wiped (away) their fright and loo[sened(?)] their tension”. Diff. Hätinen 2022 (“He wiped away their sores and und[id] their deformation,” but transcribing pulḫāssina).