ṭurru I

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Variant: durru, turru
Meanings:
corner, band, knot
de:German: Deutsch Ecke, Band, Knoten
Grammar:
pos: subst.Substantive
Logogram: DUR
1 Lexical

OB-LexOB-Lex: Old Babylonian lexical texts — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) RI-bàd-da = ṭù-ri dūrim ZA 94, 230 i 14 “corner of the wall”. see Krebernik ib. p. 234. new

11. Band, knot

SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) É tu-ur-[r]i liptû rupšu? meḫret šiddu liškunū šūra u epra uttabbakma sēkirūta līpušū MesCiv. 13, 3c: 34 ebl “should they open the house (made of) plaited reeds, should they set (its) width equal to (its) length, should reeds and dust be heaped up, and should they do damming work?” cf. ibid.: 41 (É tu-ur-ri [li]kṣirū). new

12. Corner

MB-LitMB-Lit: Middle Babylonian literary texts tu-ur-ra ana tu-ur-ri ittanamzaz MesCiv. 17, 120: 18 (Lam.) SEAL “she keeps stopping at corner after corner”. Following Zomer 2018, 182f. pace Farber 2014, 248: “time and again”.

13. An astronomical feature

LBLB: Late Babylonian (ca. 626 BCE – 100 CE) kajjamānu ana muḫḫi DUR-šu ana elamti izzīz ADART 4, 52: 12 “Saturn stood on top of its (i.e. the Moon's) ṭ .-halo to the east”.

According to Steele 2022, ṭurru is a sundog stretching horizontally east from an atmospheric halo. For other meaning of ṭurru in astral contexts, see Fincke 2024, 13-40.
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