ṭūru
6Attestations
MBMB: Middle Babylonian (ca. 1600–1000 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) 1 (p) ⸢2 (b)⸣ ṭú-r[u-ú] MBLET, 27: 12 “1 bushel 2 seah of ṭ.” new
MBMB: Middle Babylonian (ca. 1600–1000 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) 2 (b)!⸣ ṭú-re-e MBLET, 27 r. 10 “2 seah of ṭ.” new
MBMB: Middle Babylonian (ca. 1600–1000 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) 1 GUR ṭú-ru-ú ab-lu-ú MBLET, 52: 3 “1 kor of dried(?) ṭ.” new
MBMB: Middle Babylonian (ca. 1600–1000 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) 2 (p) 4 (b) ṭú-ru-ú MBLET, 52: 18 “2 bushel 4 seah of ṭ.” new
MBMB: Middle Babylonian (ca. 1600–1000 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) 30 laḫtan ⸢ṭú ?⸣- re-e MBLET, 51: 11 “30 laḫtannu -vats for/of(?) ṭ.” new
SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) ṭu-ri šadê SAA 3, 28 r. 10 “ṭ. of the mountains”. new
Discussion
ṭ. is also attested in SB medical and LB economic texts, where it is either weighed or counted, and the amounts are usually rather small (several shekels or up to 60 plants, see CAD Ṭ 167 ṭūru a), but once, in a LB text, we find two talents of ṭūru (see CAD Ṭ 167 ṭūru b). See Jursa 2009, 166.
Note the possible Aram. cognate referring to a bitter plant (s.a.). If referring to a plant (and not the aromatic resin), the term may be connected either with Commiphora (a tree producing fragrant myrrh and resin, which is called opopanax, being endemic in southern Arabia and northeast Africa) or with Opopanax chironium (from the Apiaceae family), a fragrant herb (producing latex gum-resin when dried). The latter was known as a panacaea in classical time and seems to more likely candidate for the term.
According to CAD Ṭ 167 ṭūru, the designation may probably refer to either opopanax or galbanum whereas AHw 1397 ṭūru propses opopanax only.