sakikkû
REVIEW
Variant: sagiqqu
Meanings:
lit. "sick strands"; symptom(s); prognostic-diagnostic series
de:German: Deutsch wörtl. "kranke Stränge"; Symptom(e); prognostisch-diagnostische Serie
Distribution: MB-UgaritMB-Ugarit: Middle Babylonian texts from Ugarit (ca. 1500–1200 BCE), SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE), NANA: Neo Assyrian (ca. 1000–600 BCE)
Grammar:
pos: subst.Substantive
Logogram: SA.GIG
Etymology: Borrowed ＜ Sum.Sumerian sa-gig(-ga)
1 Lexical
Commentaries
SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) (comm.) SA.GIG : napḫar murṣ[u] CunMon. 49/2, 171: 33. Commentary Sakikkû V 121′(?) and passim in Sakikkû commentaries. new
Discussion
The logogram SA.GIG also refers to the tendon or muscle disorder maškadu (possibly sciatica), which must be distinguished from the more general term at hand.