nabāsu
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Variant: nabalsu
Meanings:
red(-dyed) wool
Grammar:
pos: subst.Substantive
2Attestations
LBLB: Late Babylonian (ca. 626 BCE – 100 CE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) sikina-ba-su YOS 17, 329: 1 “garment made of red wool”. new
LBLB: Late Babylonian (ca. 626 BCE – 100 CE) 1 sikiḪÉ.ME.DA na-bal-su YOS 17, 307: 1 “1 tabarru garment made of nabāsu wool(?)”.
Discussion
On the LB reading of the logogram sikiḪÉ.ME.DA (tabarru rather than nabāsu) see SAD D/T/Ṭ 48 s.v. tabarru 7. For OB refs. see Durand 2009, 144; for LB see Beaulieu 2003, 384. In general, see Thavapalan 2020, 294ff.