tiʾāmtu

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Variant: timêtu (?), têmtu, tiʾāmetu+, tiwiʾatu+ (?), teʾāmtu, tâtu+
Meanings:
sea, large lake
de:German: Deutsch Meer, großer See
fr:French: Français mer, grand lac
ar:Arabic: العربية بحر, بحيرة كبيرة
Domain: Cosmic geography
Grammar:
pos: subst.Substantivepattern: PiRāSt
8Attestations

OB-LitOB-Lit: Old Babylonian literary texts — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) šārum ti-me-a-tim uṣīma u ti-a-me-tum ippallassum [im]ḫaṣ uruḫ [ti]-wi-a-tim CUSAS 32, 7 i 19-22 “the wind went out (upon) the sea and the sea looked at it. It beat the sea’s hair”. Cf. George, ib. p. 152: “The spell appears to play with variants of the Sea’s name”. The verbal form ip-pa-al-la-súm, if not to be corrected with George to ip-pa-al-la-<sà>-šum, indicates that all these forms are sg. new

OB-LitOB-Lit: Old Babylonian literary texts — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) tīrū ti-a-me-tim tīrūšu CUSAS 10, 1: 40 SEAL 1551 “are (not) his courtiers courtiers of the seas?” new

OB-LitOB-Lit: Old Babylonian literary texts — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) mê ti-me-tim ellūtim lū aspu[ḫ] AML, 57: 18 SEAL “verily I dispersed the pure water of the sea.” Incantation against diseases. new

OB-LitOB-Lit: Old Babylonian literary texts — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) [giš?t]ilmunnû lībiram te-a-am-ta-am AML, 67: 5 SEAL “may the [D]ilmun-palm cross the sea hither.” new

OB-LitOB-Lit: Old Babylonian literary texts — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) ina mê ajabba ti-me-tim ra[pšatim] CUSAS 32, 28a: 3 SEAL “in the waters of the ocean, the wide sea.” Cf. ina mê ti-a-am-tim rūqūtim AML 14: 7 “in the distant waters of the sea”. new

SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) ana A.AB.BA ša šulum šamši u A.AB.BA ša māt <A>murri aṣbat RIMA 3/1, 9: 41 “I took to the sea in the west, the sea of the land of Amurru”. new

SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) [šadî?] u ta-ma-⸢a⸣-ti [...] Ludlul V 93 eBL “[mountains] and seas [...]”.

SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) ana ayabbi u ta-ma-tum (var. ⸢ta⸣-a-⸢tum⸣) unaqqi mêšu Iraq 86, 44: 118 “it (the Euphrates) pours its waters into ocean and sea.” For tâtu < tâwatu < tâmatu see Fadhil/Jiménez ib. p. 56. new

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