namtaru

SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) pašḫū ṣindūšu uballaṭū nam-ta-ra (∥ nam-tar ; nam-⸢tar⸣-ri) Ludlul I 22 ↗eBL “(but) his bandages are soothing(?) (and) they heal a (doomed) fate”. Cf. the different interpretation in Lenzi 2023, 65 and Hätinen 2022 as referring to the doomed or fated patient (both translate “the doomed”) whereas Oshima 2014, 79 understood namtar here as a reference to the god of death but translates nonetheless “dead man.” A similar connection between fate and the person who bears it is not yet attested in the dictionaries. ^new

NAM.TARSBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) miḫiṣ NAM.TAR maḫiṣ Sakikkû XV 10′ “the blow of a fate-demon hit him”. Corresponds to 4′ in Heeßel 2000. See also Sakikkû XXII 27 (39b in Heeßel 2000). ^new

NAM.TARSBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) [bubuʾtu ṣalimtu?] qāt Ištar lipit NAM.TAR ul iballuṭ Sakikkû XXXIII 114a “[a black boil(?)] – (this is caused by) the hand of Ištar; touch of the fate (demon); he will not recover”. ^new

SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) ša ina erši NAM.TAR nadû tušatba AMD 8/2, 241: 43 “you raise up the one who is laid out on (his) deathbed”. ^new