parīsu I
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Meanings:
plank; oar, punting-pole
Distribution: MB-EmarMB-Emar: Middle Babylonian texts from Emar (ca. 1500–1200 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD), SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD)
Grammar:
pos: subst.Substantivepattern: PaRīS
Etymology: Uncertain See EDA 1, 304 ◊P0530. Not identical with parrisu?
3Attestations
OB-LitOB-Lit: Old Babylonian literary texts [pa-r]i-si ša ṣuppā 5 šūši iksam Gilg. OB VA+BM iv 27 eBL “cut me 300 [punting]-poles, each one ṣuppu (= sixty cubits)”. Cf. pa-ri-si ša 5 nindanā Gilg. SB X 160 “punting poles of 5 rods each”. Cf. George 2003, 280f.
SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) āmur pa-ri-su u ḫišiḫtum addī Gilg. SB XI 65 eBL “I found a punting-pole and put the tackle in place”.
SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) išši pa-ri-sa Gilgameš eleppa uṭṭeḫḫâ ana kibri Gilg. SB XI 276 eBL “he raised the punting-pole, Gilgameš brought the boat close to the shore”.