ugusigû

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Variant: agusīgu, aguziqqu
Meanings:
(a stone)
de:German: Deutsch (ein Stein)
fr:French: Français (une pierre)
ar:Arabic: العربية (حجر)
Distribution: MB-LexMB-Lex: Middle Babylonian lexical texts, SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE), LBLB: Late Babylonian (ca. 626 BCE – 100 CE)
Domain: Stone
Grammar:
pos: subst.Substantive
Logogram: UGU.ÁŠ.GI₄.GI₄, UGU.AŠ.GÌ.GÌ, AŠ.GÌ.GÌ
Etymology: Borrowed from an unknown languageThe source language cannot be determined
2 Lexical

SB-LexSB-Lex: Standard Babylonian lexical texts — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) [na₄ugu]-áš-gi₄-gi₄ = a-gu-si-gu AOAT 275, 311 BM 37932 5' DCCLT. School text. Following [na₄áš]-gi₄-gi₄ = as-qí-qu-[u]. new

MB-LexMB-Lex: Middle Babylonian lexical texts — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) na₄ugu-áš-g[ig] = a-gu-zi-ig-gu Emar 6/4, 553: 185' DCCLT. new

3Further Attestations

SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) kunuk irtišu na₄ugu.áš.[gi₄.gi₄] Iraq 77: 28 eBL “(if) the seal (around) his chest is (from) a .-stone”. Note the parallel line kunuk a-gu-si-gu šakin ibid.: 8, cited in CAD s.v. agusīgu as K.4212:4' (cf. NABU 2001/42). new

SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) ašgigû u ⸢na₄⸣[u]gu.aš.⸢gì.gì⸣ ša akanna epšū ultu GN našâ MDP 53, 75 no. DSf: 27 “the ašgigû -stone and the agusīgu -stone that were used here were brought from GN”. Akk. ašgigû u agusīgu is paralleled by Old Persian kāsaka haya axšaina “the turquoise gemstone” (cf. Schmitt 2023, 132: § 10 F). new

LBLB: Late Babylonian (ca. 626 BCE – 100 CE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) 1 ša na₄ugu.aš.gì.gì YOS 24, 51: 11 eBL “1 ( ḫinšu -object) from a. -stone”. new

Discussion

Likely to be differentiated from ḫusīgu (cf. Schuster-Brandis 2008, 450).

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