kūbu I
1 Lexical
Commentaries
SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) (comm.) dkù-bu : d.kùku₁₀-bu : ku₁₀ : eṭûtu : B[U( šír ) : n]u-ú-ri CunMon. 49/2, 140: 5 “stillborn child (read) ku₁₀-bu (in which) ku₁₀ (means) darkness, B[U (read šír means) l]ight”. Commentary Sakikkû IV 1. new
2Further Attestations
SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) (comm.) kīma dkù-bu ultu li[bbi ..]. lā namāri tareddi CunMon. 49/2, 140: 5f. “you advance/guide(?) [out of(?) ..]. of no light like a stillborn child out of the bel[ly ...]”. Commentary Sakikkû IV 1. new
SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) kīma dkù-bi tušnālšuma lumunšu ittabbal Sakikkû XXIX 1 “(if) you bury it (viz., the child born with sign of epilepsy) like a stillborn child, its evil (influence) will be carried away”. new
Discussion
The formerly supposed var. qūbu (written qu-bi, cf. AHw. 498 kūbu 1) in KAR 196 iii 52 is now emended to zaq!-pi “protruding” (cf. the note in Steinert 2026, 540 note on 179) or understood as quppi “buckled, collapsed” (see Farber 1987, 276 note on 52a).