zīmu

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Meanings:
face, countenance
de:German: Deutsch Gesicht, Angesicht
Distribution: OB onward(s)OB onward(s): Old Babylonian onwards (ca. 2000 BCE onwards), NANA: Neo Assyrian (ca. 1000–600 BCE)
Grammar:
pos: subst.Substantivenumber: usu. pl.Usually pluralpattern: PīS
Logogram: MÚŠ, uzu MÚŠ
Etymology: Cf. Aram./Syr./Mand. zjw, zjwʾ (zīw, zīwā) “appearance; splendor”, see Sokoloff 2002, 407; Sokoloff 2009, 377; Drower/Macúch 1963, 166, and Arab. zijj “appearance; presentation; wear”, see Wehr 538.
2 Lexical

OB-LexOB-Lex: Old Babylonian lexical texts — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) sag-ki = zi-mu (∥ panū, ḫidirtu, sakkû, pūtum) MSL SS 1, 18: 26 (Sag) DCCLT. new

SB-LexSB-Lex: Standard Babylonian lexical texts — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) ⸢sig₇⸣-sa-la-amalam = ⸢zi⸣-i-mu SpTU 4, 187: 12 (Erim.) DCCLT. new

31. "Countenance, (facial) features" (usually pl.)

OB-LitOB-Lit: Old Babylonian literary texts ⸢zi-mu⸣ ša tāmuru Šamaš namrum Gilg. OB Harmal₁: 12 eBL “the countenance that you saw was shining Šamaš”. not rīmu, see George 2003, 251.

SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) ištē[t] ardatu banû ⸢zi⸣-mu-šú Ludlul III 31 eBL “(in my dream,) there was a certai[n] young woman whose features were beautiful”. Note the wrong masc. genus of the pronominal suffix (instead of fem. -ša). new

SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) nummurū zi-mu-šun JNES 78, 6: 28 RINAP “their faces are cheerful”. new

22. In ana zīm(i) “corresponding to, according to, in view of; in front of”

OB-LitOB-Lit: Old Babylonian literary texts — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) (temple-offering) ša ana zi-mi ilūtiša rabîš šūluku Wilcke 2017, 742: 56 “which is greatly befitting her divine rank”. new

OB-LitOB-Lit: Old Babylonian literary texts — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) ana zi-im ilūtišu ušēlī RIMA 1, 57: 17 “I offered (a throne) befitting his divine rank”. new

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