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sapān

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Meanings:

soap (plant)

Seife, Seifenpflanze

savon, plante à savon

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Etymology: word Köcher apud Finkel 2000, 154 sub 3, connects sapān with Aram. sʾpwn, loaned into Gk. as sápōn and into Lat. as sapo “soap” (cf. also Syr. ṣpwn, ṣpwnʾ (ṣappōn, ṣappōnā), beneath others, in Sokoloff 2009, 1297). The word indicates apparently a saponaceous plant.

3Attestations

SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) KU MUG sa-pan BAM 12, 651: 43 GKAB “powder of ballukku soap”. Cf. also 2 gín šimmug sa-pan ib.: 30 "2 shekels of ballukku soap". ^new

LBLB: Late Babylonian (ca. 626 BCE – 100 CE) 1 GÍN ŠIM.MUG sa-pan UET 4, 146: 3 “1 shekel of ballukku soap”. The UET 4 references are mistakenly cited in CAD S 158 and AHw. 1025 s.v. sapannu “flatlands”. See also Bácskay 2021, 59.

LBLB: Late Babylonian (ca. 626 BCE – 100 CE) 1 GÍN ŠIM.MUG sa-[pan] taparram Lambert, 170 no. 16: 5 “you cut 1 shekel of ballukku soap”.

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