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5Attestations
OB-LitOB-Lit: Old Babylonian literary texts — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) [ dE]N.ZU-ni-iš-tu-um šī CUSAS 10, 13: 1 (= ALL, 5) SEAL “she is a woman”. Speculative writing, understood as “Sîn (moongod)” + “lioness (nēštum)”, see George 2009, 76. new
SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) aššu itti DIN GI(.)E (lamdu?) imât Sakikkû XIV 105 “he will die because he got acquainted with a(nother) woman”. Cf. the Commentary Sakikkû XIV 105 in Wee 2019, 237: 23f. Note the use of MU.TIN (= zikaru “male(?)” Emesal; cf. Steinert 2026, 75: n. on 59) in gender prognoses in Sakikkû XL 59f. (58 uses MU.PA, presumably also for “male”; note Reisner 1894, 163 iv 6 mumu₆ = a-me-lu EME.TE.NÁ). Accordingly, a homosexual relationship of the patient cannot be excluded. new
SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) ana zik(a)ri u MUNUS qāssu ubil Sakikkû XIII 116′ “he laid hand on man and woman”. new
SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) muruṣ râme maruṣ ana zikari u MUNUS ištēnma Sakikkû XVIII 6 “he suffers from lovesickness; it is the same for man and woman”. Corresponds to 8f. in Heeßel 2000. See also Sakikkû XVIII 21 (30 in Heeßel 2000) and passim in Sakikkû. new
SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) ṣubāt dam MUNUS maḫiṣti Sakikkû XXVIII 2 “(part of the) clothing with the blood of a menstruating (lit.: smitten) woman”. Corresponds to 4–6 in Heeßel 2000. Cf. also Sakikkû XXVIII 5 (14–16) (perhaps abbreviated ṣubāt dam MUNUS). new