matnu
DRAFT
Meanings:
strand (of hair, beard, etc.); tendon; bow-string
Grammar:
pos: subst.Substantive
2Attestations
OB-LitOB-Lit: Old Babylonian literary texts — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) bašmu 6 pīšu 7 ma-at-nu mu-⸢bi⸣-il libbišu CUSAS 32, 48: 10 SEAL “the serpent: 6 are its mouths, 7 are the strands (that) carry (?) his body”. new
SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) misarru patar sipar[ri] šibbē pāšē erî mat*-né-e tušaššâššunūt[u] SpTU 5, 246 iii 3 eBL “you let them carry a belt, a bronze sword, girdles, copper axes, bowstrings”. Von Weiher ibid. 49 considers attribution to gurnu “of average quality” or emendation to kur-ṣe-e “fetters”. new
Discussion
On the general mng. “strand” rather than “sinew” see Deller/Mayer 1984, 83f.; Mayer 2017, 4.