awātu
31. Utterance
OB-LitOB-Lit: Old Babylonian literary texts — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) palḫat a-a-as-sà Streck/Wasserman 2018, 21 ii 43 SEAL “terrible is her word”. with zero-spelling of /w/, cf. Streck/Wasserman 2018, 12. Note a-i-lu for awīlu in i 11. new
MB-LitMB-Lit: Middle Babylonian literary texts — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) [qar]rādūšu ippalūšu ＜ana＞ PN am-ma-tá izzakkarūšu … PN am-ma-tá [i]štu pīšu ul uqatta EA 359 r. 6’f. SEAL “his [war]riors answered him, to PN they spoke: … PN had not yet finished the word [o]ut of his mouth …”. cf., however, a-ma-tá ibid. r. 11’. new
SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) ša a-mat Bābili [...] Ludlul IV Sec. C 7 eBL “who/of the word of Babylon [...]”. j+7 in Hätinen 2022.
12. Decision
OB-LitOB-Lit: Old Babylonian literary texts ša a-wa-at PN īpušu unakkaru ana PN₂ ū perʾīšu ulammanu RIME 4, 800: 13 “who(ever) changes the decision spoken by PN or does harm to either PN₂ or his descendants”.
33. Matter, issue
SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) aj ublam(ma) libbaka epēš puzru [a]rkānumma a-ma-tu (var.: [a-ma-t]um) inneṣṣi u puzru ša tēpušu ippette Counsels of Wisdom: A+39 eBL “your mind should not aim at acting secretly! [L]ater on, the matter will be uncovered (lit.: will be scraped) and the secrecy (lit.: secret that has been carried out) will be seen”.
SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) a-ma-tum (var.: ⸢a-mat⸣) aruštu bēlāša urraš a-ma-tum ebbetu [bēlā]ša ubbab Counsels of Wisdom: A+46f. eBL “a dirty affair dirties its participant(s), a clean affair cleans its participant(s)”.
SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) u atta tara[š]ši ⸢a⸣-ma-ta (var.: ⸢a-ma-tam⸣) ana dāriš Counsels of Wisdom: A+43 eBL “and you, you will ha[v]e cause to complain forever”. Note the different interpretation of the line as an introduction for the subsequent proverb-like lines A+44–A+47 in Földi 2022 (“As for you, you will ever after incur such comments as”) to which, however, the other instances using awātu + rašû do not fit. The respective introduction to this section is rather l. A+44.