ušû
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Variant: išiʾu
Meanings:
(a dark stone), diorite, olivine gabbro; (a dark wood), ebony(?)
Grammar:
pos: subst.Substantive
11. As stone
OB-LitOB-Lit: Old Babylonian literary texts i-ši-a-am [… ana] ṣalmij[a abnī] CUSAS 17, 22 iv 13 “[I fashioned] the diorite(?) [into m]y statue”.
12. As wood
OB-LitOB-Lit: Old Babylonian literary texts ina šadu GN i-ši-a-am (|| i-si) ušērida[m] CUSAS 17, 22 iv 3 “I brought ebony from the mountain land of Meluḫḫa”.