ṣinnaḫtiru

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Alternative Reading: ṣinnaḫtīru
Meanings:
(a skin affliction)
de:German: Deutsch (eine Hauterkrankung)
fr:French: Français (une affection cutanée)
Grammar:
pos: subst.Substantive
Etymology: Compound < (?) The word my be an univerbalized compound of (yet unclear) ṣinnaḫu/ṣinnāḫu? + tīru (I or II).
31. As skin affliction

SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) [..]. u išakkus* beʾiš* ṣi-in-na-[aḫ]-ti-⸢ru⸣ [šumšu] Sakikkû XXXIII 65 “[if (a lesion?) ..]. and it dries out, it smells bad – ṣ . [is its name]”. new

SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) [...] ⸢ umṣata*⸣ peṣīta* irši u zuʾta uk[ā]l? ṣi-in-na-aḫ-ti-[ru šumšu] Sakikkû XXXIII 66 “[if (the lesion?) ...] it(?) develops a white umṣatu -mole and cont[ai]ns(?) sweat – ṣ . [is its name]”. new

SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) ṣi-in-na-aḫ-ti-ri qāt Gula Sakikkû XXXIII 106a “ṣ . – (this is caused by) the hand of Gula”. new

12. Localization according to speculative scholarly texts

SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) KI.MIN([ ult]u ḫašê) ṣi-in-na-aḫ-tir SpTU 1, 43 r. 6 “ditto (from the lungs): s .-disease”. (In a LB list of ascriptions of diseases to particular organs or body regions). new

Discussion

Even though the probable univerbalization of ṣinnaḫ (supposedly derived from ṣanāḫu “to excrete (fluid)”) “watery stool” + tīru II “coil, intestine” (but note tīru III “overlay”) suggests a disease or symptom of the intestines or the anus (thus AHw 1589 and CAD Ṣ 200), the preserved attestations seem to describe a skin condition or affliction; also in the case of BAM 543 (2290+) i 53′, where affected lips begin to excrete (dama i-ṣa-na-ḫa) blood and/or "turn into ṣ.“ Contextually, this is supported by the position of the respective desgination in Sakikkû XXXIII beside other skin affliction and the fact that it also appears in medical incantations together with diseases affecting the skin (see again BAM 543 iv 26′ (24′–26′): ”Incantation: from the lead-rope of heaven the diseases sikkatu, miqtu, šanâdu, samānu, ašû, […] ašû muttaprišu, ekketu, rišûtu, ṣinnahti/īru descended."). The verb ṣanāḫu may thus indeed refer to the excretion (and/or also secretion) of fluids, but not exclusively via the anus as is suggested by BAM 543 (in which respect it seems to be similar to nadû III in such contexts). SpTU 1, no. 43 r. 6 (LB) associates the disease with the lungs, which might have been influenced by earlier connection of ṣanāḫu with suʾālu “phlegm, cough” in lex. texts. Similarly, the aforementioned attestation BAM 543 i 53′, which is concerned with the treatment of affected lips, seems to point at a localization (or place of observation) of the ailment at the mouth.

Acc. to GAG: § 55 o 26A *, the disease term may show the only yet known example of PiRRāS-noun pattern.

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