eṭemmūtu
11. Referring to a place of burial or tomb
SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) ina bīti ša e-[ṭ]e₄?-mu-ti takannan asqubbīt(u) alpi tašakkan aktananka ina bīt e-ṭe₄-mu-ti sebîšu DU₁₁.GA-ma dubsar 5, 428: 30, 33 “you wrap (it; viz., the figurine into a linen cloth) in the house of the spirits; you deposit neck meat (lit.: the hump) from an ox and he/you(?) must say seventimes 'I have wrapped you in the house of the spirits'”.
12. Further Attestations
SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) e-ṭém-mu-tu (∥ [e]-ṭém-mu-ta) attalak ann[i] Ludlul V 33 eBL “(had the lord not set me free ...) I for sure would have become a ghost!”
Discussion
The attestation dubsar 5, 30 (cited as KAR 62 r. 10 and 13) has been previously understood as either edammûtu (CAD E 22) or elamūtu (AHw 197). For the new reading see Maul 2019, 428f. and 432.