balāṭu II

OBOB: Old Babylonian (ca. 2000–1600 BCE) GG-stem (Grundstamm/Basic stem) šeʾam … šūbilamma bītī lū ba-li-iṭ-ṭì AbB 10, 4: 36 ↗ARCHIBAB “send me grain so my household may stay alive”. pace CAD B 301b b. 1a (lu-ba-li-iṭ-ṭì “so that I may keep alive”). For comm. see Kraus 1985, 6 n. 4g.

OB-LitOB-Lit: Old Babylonian literary texts — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) GG-stem (Grundstamm/Basic stem) [ša P]N īpulū zērtam [u]l ib-lu-ṭú šunu imtūtū Zimrī-Līm Epic iv 5 ↗SEAL “[those who] answered [P]N with hostility did [no]t stay alive – they have died”. ^new

MAMA: Middle Assyrian (ca. 1500–1000 BCE) GG-stem (Grundstamm/Basic stem) bal-ṭa-ku ma-ṭi-ma ša balāṭija mētāku ma-ṭi-[ma ša muʾātija] KBo. 28, 65: 9 “I am alive (but have) too little to live; I am dead (but have) too litt[le to die]”. Read incorrectly in von Soden 1988, 345 as bal-ṭa-ku-ma ṭé-ma (…).

SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) GG-stem (Grundstamm/Basic stem) alka Adapa ammīni lā tākul lā taltima lā ba-al-ṭa-ta MesCiv. 10, 20: 68 “come, Adapa, why did you not eat nor drink? Hence you shall not live!”

TINSBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) GG-stem (Grundstamm/Basic stem) ul TIN Sakikkû XIII 12 “he will not recover”. Passim in Sakikkû. Sometimes used instead of imât “he will die.” ^new

NI.ŠISBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) GG-stem (Grundstamm/Basic stem) NI.ŠI Sakikkû XIII 10 “he will recover”. Passim in Sakikkû. For the interpretation as pseudo-ideogram for iballuṭ (going back to nêšu/nīʾāšu used instead in OB lit. medical texts), cf. Stol 1993, 75 note on 74 (with additions in Heeßel 2000, 63 fn. 103). ^new

NANA: Neo Assyrian (ca. 1000–600 BCE) GG-stem (Grundstamm/Basic stem) libbinni ib-ta-a[l-ṭa] SAA 10, 185: 15 ↗SAAo “our hearts were delighted”. ŠÀ-bi lib-l[a-ṭa] ib. e. 2 “may my heart be delighted!”

NANA: Neo Assyrian (ca. 1000–600 BCE) GG-stem (Grundstamm/Basic stem) šar māt Aššur i-bal-la-ṭá SAA 4, 322 r. 1 “will PN, king of Assyria, survive (and escape this insurrection)?” prev. cited in CAD B 73a s.v. balû 1b (as ABL 1368, see Deller 1966, 308).

NANA: Neo Assyrian (ca. 1000–600 BCE) GG-stem (Grundstamm/Basic stem) adi ūmāti ša PN bal-ṭu-u-ni ipalluḫūšu SAA 14, 208: 4 ↗SAAo “as long as PN lives they shall serve him”.

OAOA: Old Assyrian (ca. 1900–1700 BCE) DD-stem (Doubled stem/Intensive) luqūtam … ba-lí-ṭá-am Prag, 431: 6 “estimate the goods!” cf. the stative ba-lu-uṭ-ma ib.: 16 “is estimated”.

OBOB: Old Babylonian (ca. 2000–1600 BCE) DD-stem (Doubled stem/Intensive) bu-ul-lu-uṭ ZI.GA ŠE.Ì.GIŠ ARM 22, 276 iv 40 ↗ARCHIBAB “drawing the balance of expenditures of sesame”. sim. ARM 22, 203 r. iv 8, of bronze.

OBOB: Old Babylonian (ca. 2000–1600 BCE) DD-stem (Doubled stem/Intensive) ana bu-ul-lu-uṭ našpakim šakin MARI 3, 262 no. M.11500: 9 “(this document) is established to render the account of the accumulation (of grain)”. For further ref. in Mari see Durand 1984, 260ff. See also Veenhof 1987, 49f.

MA-LitMA-Lit: Middle Assyrian literary texts — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) DD-stem (Doubled stem/Intensive) ešressu ina pīle u libitte lū ú-bé-li-iṭ Wilcke 2010, 433 vi 24 “I truly restored its (scil. the city’s) sanctuary with limestone and baked bricks”. See also RIMA 1, 242: 28; ib. 243: 8 (ú-be-liṭ/li-iṭ). ^new

MB-EmarMB-Emar: Middle Babylonian texts from Emar (ca. 1500–1200 BCE) DD-stem (Doubled stem/Intensive) ḫubbulāku u ana bubūti nuppuḫ u PN ub-tal-li-ṭá-ni-mi AulaOr. Suppl. 1, 25: 7 “I am in debt and bloated(?) from hunger, but PN maintains me”. For bulluṭu “to keep alive (during time of distress)” see the disc. in Adamthwaite 2001, 148ff.

SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) DD-stem (Doubled stem/Intensive) (ana Ninurta …) mu-bal-liṭ pagri KAL 3, 73: 3 ↗eBL “(for Ninurta …) who revives the body”. see also KAL 3, 72: 6 (for Tašmētu).

SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) DD-stem (Doubled stem/Intensive) pašḫū ṣindūšu ú-bal-la-ṭu (∥ ú-bal-laṭ) namtara Ludlul I 22 ↗eBL “(but) his bandages are soothing(?) (and) they heal (∥ he heals) a (doomed) fate”.

SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) DD-stem (Doubled stem/Intensive) [bēl]ī ⸢upaššiḫ⸣anni [bēl]ī uṣammidanni [bēl]ī upaṭṭiranni [bēl]ī ú-bal-liṭ-an-ni (∥ [ú-b]al-⸢li-ṭa⸣-an-ni) Ludlul V 4 ↗eBL “my [lor]d gave me relief, my [lor]d bandaged me, my [lor]d released me, my [lor]d healed me”.

SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) DD-stem (Doubled stem/Intensive) ša lā Marduk mannu mītūtašu ú-bal-liṭ Ludlul V 73 ↗eBL “who else but Marduk (could have) revived (him) from his state of (near) death?”

OBOB: Old Babylonian (ca. 2000–1600 BCE) DtDt-stem (D with t-infix) UD 5 kamli-ib-ta-li-iṭ AbB 12, 37: 8 ↗ARCHIBAB “(give to PN 6 seahs o barley) so that he may be kept alive for 5 days”.

OBOB: Old Babylonian (ca. 2000–1600 BCE) DtDt-stem (D with t-infix) LÚmeš mu-úš-ke-num DUMUmeš GN aššum bu-ta-al-lu-ṭì-im ana nabalkatti šadîm ittalkū ARM 28, 51: 11 ↗ARCHIBAB “the pauper(s), sons of GN, went to cross the mountain in order to provide for themselves”. See also Kupper 1988 and Borger 2008, 439.