būšu
1 Lexical
Commentaries
SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) (comm.) TUR-šú GU₇ : bu-šu-šú ikkal : TUR : bu-šu-ú SpTU 5, 259: 8 CCP “TUR-šú GU₇ (means) 'he will eat his possessions' (because) TUR (means) 'possessions'”. || Fs. Leichty 165: 21. Commentary to Alu XXII-XXIII. The equation is obscure (cf. von Weiher 1998, 77 and Jiménez 2014 fn. 8: “probably a case of metonymy, perhaps to be translated as 'a son is a posession'.” ). new
2Further Attestations
OB-LitOB-Lit: Old Babylonian literary texts — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) ilīšunu šallassunu u bu-še-šu-nu naṣrūtim ana GN āl šarrūtija lū ušārīʾam BagM 34, 144 vii 12 “I indeed have brought their gods, their captives, and their guarded goods to GN, my royal city”. new
MAMA: Middle Assyrian (ca. 1500–1000 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) kāte šeʾe ba-ši-šu bu-ši-šu VDI 80, 71: 21 tcma “the surety of the barley are his holdings and belongings”. new