lamassu

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Meanings:
(female) tutelary deity
Grammar:
pos: subst.Substantivepattern: PaRaSS
3 Lexical

OB-LexOB-Lex: Old Babylonian lexical texts dlama igi-ĝu₁₀ = la-ma-a-su īnija CUSAS 12, 155 iii 20 (Ugumu) DCCLT “protective spirit of my eye”. referring to the pupil, see Streck 2024, 174.

OB-LexOB-Lex: Old Babylonian lexical texts ki-tìl = la-ma-as-sú-um CUSAS 12, 252 no. A 4: 18 DCCLT “protective deity”.

OB-LexOB-Lex: Old Babylonian lexical texts — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) dlamma igi-ge₁₇ = la-ma-sí īnīja BBVOT 3, 63: 31 (Ugumu) DCCLT. The text consistently uses GIG (ge₁₇) for the Sumerian possessive pronoun (usually ĝu₁₀). new

4Further Attestations

OB-LitOB-Lit: Old Babylonian literary texts kīma la-ma-as-sí [u]l šūqurat maḫar DN ZA 110, 39 i 9 SEAL “(being a sage) is not so precious to DN as a protective spirit”.

SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) ikkelemmūma inessû dLAMMA u šēdu Ludlul I 15 eBL “when he frowns, guardian spirit and protective deity withdraw”. new

SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) ⸢šēdu⸣ dLAMMA angubbû libit Esagil Ludlul V 59 eBL “the protective deity, the guardian spirit, (and) the titulary deities of the brickwork of the Esagil-temple”. Restorations according to Oshima 2014, 108.

LBLB: Late Babylonian (ca. 626 BCE – 100 CE) (1 seal made of) na₄.dLAMMA dubsar 7, 39: 29.

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