maštaqtu
3Attestations
SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) amēla šuātu ana maš-taq-ti kišpī šūkul Sakikkû XXII 4 “that man has been given bewitched (food) to eat for cutting-off (of his life?)”. Corresponds to 5 in Heeßel 2000. Diff. Heeßel 2000, 258 (“Diesen Mann hat man, um es auszuprobieren, Zauber(sachen) essen lassen”). new
SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) ana ma-al-⸢taq⸣-[ti? luʾāti/ruʾāti? šū]kul Sakikkû III 47 “[he has been g]iven [contaminated subtances/spittle(?) to e]at for cutting-off (of his life?)”. See similar Sakikkû VII 42′ (ana maš-taq-ti ruʾāti [šūkul?]). For the understanding of this and similar forms in Sakikkû, cf. Wee 2019, 80 and 96; Schmidtchen 2021, 274f. The expression is to be connected with harmful magical practices such as zikurrudû “cutting-off-of-life-magic.”
SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) (comm.) [kaššaptu ḫīrassu lib]bū kaššaptu ana mál-taq-tú īpussu CunMon. 49/2, 341: 9 “[a sorceress has chosen him, as] in ‘a sorceress has acted against him for cutting off (of his life)’”. Commentary Sakikkû XL 10(?). new