mūtu
11. Personified
SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) marṣu šū mu-tu u šū iktappilū Sakikkû I 22 “that sick man, death and he are entwined”. Cf. also the commentary Wee 2019, 31: 8. new
42. Qualifying something as deadly
SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) ⸢qa⸣dūt mu-tu (∥ ⸢mu⸣-ú-[tu ?]) īterim panīja Ludlul II 81 eBL “a deadly [s]ilt(?) (lit.: of death) covered my face”. Following Oshima 2014, 91 (with a slightly diff. translation: “Mud of death covered my face”) and 258. Cf. also Ludlul III 82 (šibiḫ mū[ti] “pall of death (lit.: layer/deposit of death)”).
SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) tēʾāti ināja ša uštaš⸢bi⸣ḫ šibiḫ mu-ú-[ti] ušatbi šār bēri unammir niṭl[ī] Ludlul III 82 eBL “(from) my clouded eyes which were(?) covered with the pall (lit.: deposit) of death – he removed (that pall) a thousand leagues (away and) cleared [my] vision”. Cf. the emendation of the verbal form to uštašbiḫā in Hätinen 2022 (“The cloudiness of my eyes, which were wrapped in the shroud of death”). Considering the parallel structure in the following couplet Ludlul III 84f., the body parts mentioned seem to be in casus pendens followed by the actions of Marduk in the second sentence each.
SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) lipit ÚŠ lapit imât Sakikkû XIV 109 “the touch of death has touched him; he will die”. new
SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) ana galla ÚŠ paqid imât Sakikkû XVI 10 “he was handed over to a gallu -demon of death”. new
23. (NA) bēl mūtāti (an official in charge of murder trials)
NANA: Neo Assyrian (ca. 1000–600 BCE) PN lā bēl damīja u lā bēl mu-ta-⸢ti⸣-ia šū SAA 21, 138: 8 “PN is neither my blood avenger nor my official for murder trials”.
NANA: Neo Assyrian (ca. 1000–600 BCE) mār GN GN₂ bēl mu-ta-te-ni šunu dēnu ina panēšunu nidubbu StAT 1, 54: 12 “a man of GN (and one) of GN₂ are our officials of murder trials. We conducted the trial before them”.
64. Further Attestations
OB-LitOB-Lit: Old Babylonian literary texts — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) ina šinnātīšu izâb mu-tum AML, 64: 6 SEAL “from his teeth death oozes”. (incantation against a rabid(?) dog). new
OB-LitOB-Lit: Old Babylonian literary texts — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) našpar mu-tim AML, 85: 10 SEAL “messenger of death”. said of scorpion, see also AML 97:6. new
SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) ḫamussu mu-tú (∥ mu-ú-tu) Ludlul I 96 eBL “death is imminent (lit.: quick) for him”.
SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) ina mu-te šīmat napišti ikšudaššema RINAP 1, 165: 3 RINAP “with death, the fate of life reached her”. new
SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) mu-tim ana napištišu ušellâ Sakikkû III 55 “he/it(?) lets death rise in his throat”. new
SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) (comm.) [ina NAM.ÉRIM ]-⸢ šú ?*⸣ imât NA[M :] mu-u-tum : ÉRIM : ragguḫepi [mu-ut r]aggu imât CunMon. 49/2, 30: 26′ “(concerning) ‘he will die [because of hi]s(?) [(self-inflicted) curse’:] NA[M] (means) death, (the logogram) ÉRIM (means) wicked {broken}, (the whole phrase means) he will die [the death of the w]icked”. Commentary Sakikkû I 15. new