šīru
1 Lexical
OB-LexOB-Lex: Old Babylonian lexical texts — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) uzu-ḪA-da = ši-ru-um Za-aK-lu ZA 94, 230 ii 12 “.... meat”. with unclear adjective (saklu?) see Krebernik ib. p. 237. new
21. As foodstuff
OB-LitOB-Lit: Old Babylonian literary texts — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) rabbū bajjārū waṣûšu kīma serrām[i]m pê ṣērūm ši-ra-am īkulū mutūšu Zimrī-Līm Epic iii 13 SEAL “a great many (men) were the hunters which went out with him (and thus,) like the onager (has) straw in the steppe, his men were eating meat”. new
SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) ana UZU asakki ammann[u] Ludlul V 35 eBL “(if Marduk had not spared me,) I would be counted as meat for the asakku -demon”. Diff. Oshima 2014, 108f. (“(If not), as a victim (lit.: to a body) of the asakku-demon, I might have been counted”); similarly, Hätinen 2022.
12. In šīr awīlūti "human flesh" (probably representing an alias for other materia medica et magica)
SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) UZU amēlūti ankinūta tasâk Sakikkû XXIX 6 “you pound [...] human [fle]sh, (and) ankinūtu -plant”. Corresponds to 13f. in Heeßel 2000. See also Sakikkû XXIX 12 (partially restored), 24′ (25–28, 60′f. in Heeßel 2000). It represents probably an alias for a more common materia medica et magica. new
13. In symptom descriptions
SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) šumma ina šuburrišu UZU imtanaqqut Sakikkû XIV 79 “if flesh(y matter) repeatedly is expelled out of his anus”. new
54. Metonymic for "body"
OB-LitOB-Lit: Old Babylonian literary texts — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) ṣabtū ši-ru-šu-nu išātam karšūšunu šiwītam lamdū Zimrī-Līm Epic iii 19 SEAL “their bodies caught fire (and) their minds learned burning”. new
SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) ištēn še-er-šu-⸢nu⸣-ma (∥ ⸢ši-ir-šú⸣-nu-ma ; UZUmeš-šú-nu-ma ; UZU-šu-nu-ma) pâ iteddu Ludlul I 67 eBL “one is their flesh but it had a mouth (for each)”.
SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) uṣṣallim panīja adirat libbija ⸢ši-ri-ia?⸣ (var.: UZUmeš-ia) ūtarriqū pirittu u ḫattu Ludlul I 112 eBL “the fear in my heart had darkened my face, terror and panic had paled my flesh”. new
SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) ina lā mākālê zīmūʾa itta[k]rū ši-ri (∥ ⸢še?⸣-i-ri ; UZU) ištaḫḫa damī izzū[ba] Ludlul II 92 eBL “without food, my features have become strange, my flesh has wasted (and) my blood has ooz[ed away]”.
SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) [āmu]ršuma iḫḫamû UZUmeš-ú-a (∥ UZU-⸢u ⸣- [a]) Ludlul III 14 eBL “when [I sa]w him, my flesh was immobilized”.
15. In divinatory apodoses, referring to afflictions of the body
SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) šaḫāl UZU Sakikkû XIX/XX 100′ “piercing of the flesh”. Corresponds to 93′b in Heeßel 2000. See also Sakikkû XIX/XX 88′, 102′f. (87′, 94′b–95′a in Heeßel 2000) and Labat 1965, 122: § 56: 12. new