miṭirtu
3Attestations
OA-LitOA-Lit: Old Assyrian literary texts i–ṣilli mì-iṭ-ra-tim eriqtim AML, 1: 26 SEAL “in the shade of a green irrigated orchard”.
MA-LitMA-Lit: Middle Assyrian literary texts 2 mi-iṭ-rat balāṭi bābilāt nuḫši ana ālija GN lū ušpel⸢kâmma⸣ qarbātīšu ana šīqi aškun BagM 25, 466: 62 “2 watercourses for live(-giving), which bring abundance, I indeed opened wide for my city, GN, and thus I changed its environs into irrigated land”. See also Talon 2005, 127: 58 with diff. reading.
MB-LitMB-Lit: Middle Babylonian literary texts […] mì-iṭ-re-tu-um-ma ul išatti mêša Šūpê-amēli, 98: 130 SEAL “… the canal and he does not drink its water”.
Discussion
The word BAD-ra-a-ti || BAD-ra-tum Ee VII 60 and BAD-rat || BAD-ra-a-t[ú] in Ee VII 64 is derived from bērtu “watercourse” in AHw. 122 (reading BAD = be), whereas CAD M/2, 146 derives it from miṭirtu “canal” (reading BAD = miṭ). Kämmerer/Metzler 2012, 292-294 mention both possibilities, whereas Lambert 2013, 126 and 486 (followed by eBL), reads bērtu in Ee VII 60 but miṭirtu in Ee VII 64. There is no reason to read differently in the two lines, and both bērtu and miṭirtu are possible.