daltu
1 Lexical
MB-LexMB-Lex: Middle Babylonian lexical texts MIN (= gi)-ig-izi-lá = da-la-at gizillê , MIN (= gi) sal-la = gi-sal-lu-lu , MIN (=gi) ig sal-la = da-la-at MIN (= gi-sal-lu-u) Emar 6/4, 546: 11 DCCLT “door with(?) torch; screen; screen door”.
7Further Attestations
OB-LitOB-Lit: Old Babylonian literary texts — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) da-la-at šīrim CUSAS 18, 12: 27 “door of flesh”. cf. da-al-tum ša šīrim ib. 82 . new
OB-LitOB-Lit: Old Babylonian literary texts — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) siparra retītān da-al-ta-an MesCiv. 7, 13: 49 SEAL “the fixed double doors were made of bronze”. new
OB-LitOB-Lit: Old Babylonian literary texts atta teptī pušuq šadūʾī ša sikk[ūrū edl]ū? gišIG zu abni Zimrī-Līm Epic i 35 SEAL “you opened the straits of the mountains whose bol[ts were loc]ked(?), the door(s) (made) of stone (palm) fibre(s)”.
OB-LitOB-Lit: Old Babylonian literary texts P[N p]ētiju gišIGḫi.a dannim ša s[ikkūrū edl]ū ? gišIG zina abni Zimrī-Līm Epic i 36f. “P[N who op]ens the doors of a difficult (place?) whose bol[ts were loc]ked(?), the door(s) (made) of stone (palm-frond) rib(s)”.
SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) epušma gišIG ša 6 NINDAN mēlûša 2 NINDAN rupussa 1 KÙŠ upûša šukûša sāḫirša u šagammaša ša ištēnma Gilg. SB V 316 eBL “make a door the height of which is 6 rods (30 m), the breadth of which is 2 rods (12 m), the thickness of which is 1 cubit (50 cm), the pole, lower pivot and upper pivot of which are of a single (piece)!” new
SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) [sippī ši]gari mēdel gišIGmeš [..]. ella ḫimāta ṭuḫdi ašnan Ludlul V 62 eBL “[the thresholds(?), the l]ocks, (and) the bar(s) of the doors [I smeared/spinkled with(?)] sesame oil, butter, (and) plenty of grain”. Cf. the note in Hätinen 2022 d ref. to the diff. reading in accordance with Nabonidus’ Ebabbar Cylinder (cf. Schaudig 2001, 387) mēdela dalāti “the bolt, the doors.”
LBLB: Late Babylonian (ca. 626 BCE – 100 CE) gišIG šamê Nbn., 1121: 12 “(curtain for) the ‘door of heaven’”. scil. a special chapel or chamber in Babylonian temples (Zawadzki 2006). Cf. .