burmāmu
1 Lexical
SB-LexSB-Lex: Standard Babylonian lexical texts péš-gišgi-a = bur-ma-mu MSL 8/2, 22: 190a (Hh) DCCLT “mouse of the marsh reed = b.”
2Further Attestations
SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) (comm.) [šaḫ-z]é-da-⸢bar?*⸣-s[ur-ra :] bu-⸢ri-ia⸣-a-mu ša zumuršu kīma ṭīme uṣṣuru CunMon. 49/2, 30: 18′ “(‘if he sees a dappled pig’ refers to) [ šaḫ-z]é-da-bar-s[ur-ra ] (that is) a speckled piglet(?) whose body is drawn with (hair) like yarn”. Commentary Sakikkû I 9. Cf. also the partly parallel commentary Wee 2019, 58 o. 11 (b[u-ri?-i]a-mu). new
SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) bur-ma! (LU) -am šaḫapi qātī lū ḫummuṭ TMH 13, 80: 17 eBL “let a wild boar piglet be swift of foot”. new
Discussion
Weszeli 2011-2013, 49f.: not the porcupine (AHw, CAD) but the piglet with striped back and speckled legs and shoulders. This identification is proven by the equation with šaḫû “pig” in Malku V 48, because there is no reason to assume that the porcupine was considered a pig as in Europe. Literary texts also rather point to the pig than the porcupine.