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OB-LitOB-Lit: Old Babylonian literary texts — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) ŠU.PEŠ nēšim MesCiv. 7, 11 i 37 “lion hunter”. in list of professions. ^new

MB-LitMB-Lit: Middle Babylonian literary texts kīma ša ba-i-ri-ma parikta šēt Šūpê-amēli 29, 86: 29 ↗SEAL “escape the fence like that of a hunter!”

LBLB: Late Babylonian (ca. 626 BCE – 100 CE) adī 2 MU.AN.NAmeš PN … ina IGI PN₂ lúba-ʾi-i-ri šummē ša šarri lúba-ʾi-ru-⸢tu⸣ ša šummē ulammassu WZKM 83, 31: 3 “for two years PN is at the disposal of PN₂, the bandicoot rat hunter of the king. He will teach him bandicoot rat hunting”.

OB-LitOB-Lit: Old Babylonian literary texts — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) ŠU.PEŠ ŠU.PEŠ.DA LÚ.A.AB.BA MesCiv. 7, 11: 65, 67 “fisher, šuḫadākku -fisher, sea fisher”. in list of professions. ŠU.PEŠ.DA either lipography for ŠU.PEŠ UD.DA (cf. Sjöberg 1996, 126 fn. 24; Westenholz 1997, 156 with fn. 66) or phonetic spelling of Sum. šu.ḪA ₓ (PEŠ).da.(k) ＞ Akk. šuḫadakku. For LÚ.A.AB.BA cf. ŠU.ḪA LÚ.A.AB.BAmeš (= bāʾer tiʾāmtim or appositional phrase?) “sea fishers”, cited in CAD B 33. ^new

MBMB: Middle Babylonian (ca. 1600–1000 BCE) lúŠU.ḪAmeš tâmti ša ana GN u GN₂ ginâ izabbilū JCS 19, 97: 22 “the fishermen of the sea, who have been delivering a regular offering (of fish) to GN and GN₂”. Cited in CAD B, 32 1 c 3' as unpublished letter. See also Sassmannshausen 2001, 115f.

LBLB: Late Babylonian (ca. 626 BCE – 100 CE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) lúŠU . kùKU₆ PIHANS 86, 223 no. BM 43098+: 18 ↗eBL. cf. Jursa 1999, 20. KÙ written smaller and thus clearly a phonetic gloss for KU₆(ḪA). See perhaps also BM 43290+ : 16. ^new