bābu I
10Attestations
OAOA: Old Assyrian (ca. 1900–1700 BCE) kaspum iqqaqqad šalmišunu u kēnišunu ibbītīšunu u ba-a-bi₄-šu-nu rakis AKT 3, 10: 21 “(the obligation to pay back) the silver is guaranteed by whoever among them is (financially) sound and (legally) responsible, by their houses and by their city quarter”.
OBOB: Old Babylonian (ca. 2000–1600 BCE) kunukkātim ša taknuku ba-ab qātīšina šuṭramma AbB 13, 56: 6 “the sealed documents which you sealed, write down for me ‘the gate of their hands’”. Unclear. Van Soldt, ib. p. 51: “in the gate of their …” or “the beginning of their list”. Stol apud van Soldt, ib.: perhaps “a part of the seal”?
OBOB: Old Babylonian (ca. 2000–1600 BCE) kīma ba-ab dūrija lā ibarrīʾū AbB 12, 166: 36 ARCHIBAB “that (oxen and sheep) do not starve at the ‘gate of my wall’”. Cf. van Soldt, ib. p. 133: “in my city quarter” with comm. “probably refers to (a sector) of the city wall.
OBOB: Old Babylonian (ca. 2000–1600 BCE) (comm.) i[n]a šībūt GN u maḫar ba-bi-im CT 2, 9: 5 “in (the council of) the elders of GN and in front of the gate”.
OBOB: Old Babylonian (ca. 2000–1600 BCE) ina KÁ buqūmi 5 immerī luterrakkum AbB 12, 163: 15 ARCHIBAB “at the beginning of the plucking I will bring you 5 rams in return”. see van Soldt, ib. p. 129.
OB-LitOB-Lit: Old Babylonian literary texts ba-ab laʾî ibāma … ba-ab wāli[d]ātim ibāma ZA 71, 61-63: 4, 6 SEAL “she passed the gate of the babies … she passed the gate of the women in labor”.
OB-LitOB-Lit: Old Babylonian literary texts — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) ba-ba-am ša wālittim sanda[k] pārikat AML, 164: 6 SEAL “(Lamaštu) is continously blocking the gate of the woman giving birth”. new
SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) [… a]na ilī ⸢KÁ ?⸣ ilī rabûti KAL 3, 74: 6 eBL “[f]or/[t]o the gods of the gate of the great gods”. followed by Esagil; an attribute of Babylon?
SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) akī iṣi damqi elâku ina KÁ mālakāni STT, 360 r. 16 “I stand up like a healthy tree at the gate of the processions”.
NANA: Neo Assyrian (ca. 1000–600 BCE) ana lappanī šēʾī KÁ-ia-a [t]arruṣā qātāja STT, 65: 16 “my hands are stretched out to (even) my poor neighbors”.