nimgallu
REVIEW
Meanings:
(a siege weapon, lit. "big fly")
Distribution: OBOB: Old Babylonian (ca. 2000–1600 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD)
Grammar:
pos: subst.Substantive
Etymology: Borrowed ＜ Sum.Sumerian
1Attestations
OB-LitOB-Lit: Old Babylonian literary texts — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) nim-gal-li? kalbānāt[um] MesCiv. 13, 145f. K.8486 10 eBL “‘big flies’, the grapnels”. new
Discussion
Lambert 2007, 146: “metal plates with curved prongs attached to the sides, like the legs of flies on the flies’ bodies. They would have been thrown up over the edge of a city wall on a rope in order to dislodge part of the wall”. Perhaps = niggallu “sickle”?