sikkatu I
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Variant: NANA: Neo Assyrian (ca. 1000–600 BCE) siqqatu (?)
Meanings:
peg, nail
de:German: Deutsch Pflock, Nagel
fr:French: Français piquet, clou
Grammar:
pos: subst.Substantiveroot: skkII/gem (mediae geminatae)pattern: PiRSat
Logogram: giš
GAG
Etymology: Uncertain A derivation from sakāku cannot be excluded even though it has never been suggested in AHw or CAD (diff. instead for sikkatu II, which might be related to or identical with sikkatu I; cf. AHw 1052). Note thus the mng. of the Aram./Syr. cognate skk “to stick in, nail”, see Sokoloff 2002, 810; Sokoloff 2009, 1009.
2Attestations
OA-LitOA-Lit: Old Assyrian literary texts kīma sí-ki-tim ib-barīšunu ṣalmī ušazziz OA Sarg.: 49 SEAL “I erected my image as a peg between them (the two parts of a mountain)”. As boundary marker (see CAD S 249 s. 1c).
SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) gišGAG karri [ḫurāṣa? ..]. u uqnâ tamlâ umallīma [ēkallāt?] ḫidâti u rīšātu almi […] šuqulti ḫurāṣi ša ina muḫḫi gišGAG karri RIMB 2, 304 iv 18, 21 “I inlaid knobbed nails [with gold(?) ..]. and lapis lazuli and I surrounded (with them) the [palace] of joy and delight; […] is the weight of gold which is (inlaid) into the knobbed nails”.