maḫanû
7Attestations
OBOB: Old Babylonian (ca. 2000–1600 BCE) ina ma-ḫa-nim Ḫanû kalûšu pu[ḫram] ipḫurma ARM 35, 3: 4 ARCHIBAB “the Haneans were all assembled in the encampment”.
OBOB: Old Babylonian (ca. 2000–1600 BCE) šanat kussâm rabâm [ana] ša ma-ḫa-nim ušēlû DN PN FM 5, 258: Zimri-Lim 10 “the year (in which) PN dedicated a great throne [to] DN of the encampment”. year name of Zimrī-Līm.
OBOB: Old Babylonian (ca. 2000–1600 BCE) kīma ana ma-ḫa-nim-ma allaku ARM 33, 21: 36 “as if I went to the encampment”.
OBOB: Old Babylonian (ca. 2000–1600 BCE) ana ma-[ḫa]-ni-imk[i] ARM 2, 7: 19 “to the encampment”.
OBOB: Old Babylonian (ca. 2000–1600 BCE) (the watch must be strengthened!) awīl ma-ḫa-nim ina dūrim lā urrad AbB 10, 150: 18 “no man from the encampment shall descend from the city wall!” also AbB 1, 2: 17; AbB 7, 49: 3; AbB 50: 18. Note the var. ma-a-nim in CTMMA 1, 69: 9.
OBOB: Old Babylonian (ca. 2000–1600 BCE) 12 (marḫašu -knives) ⸢LÚ ma-ḫa-nu ⸣ GN CUSAS 29, 163: 3 ARCHIBAB “for the man/men of the encampment of GN”.
OBOB: Old Babylonian (ca. 2000–1600 BCE) ma-ḫa-ni-im FM 10, 38: 5 ARCHIBAB. (broken context).
Discussion
For disc. and lit. see Streck 2000, 103; MTT I/1, 208f. The word might originally have denoted the nomadic encampment specifically, but its attestations suggest a broader mng. For the change between the spellings ma-ḫa- and ma-a- see Streck 2000, 244 for Ḫ- and 0-spellings for Amor. /ḥ/ and the spellings ma-aḫ- and ma-a- cf. maʾraštu.