gašāru
2Attestations
OB-LitOB-Lit: Old Babylonian literary texts — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) GG-stem (Grundstamm/Basic stem) ga-še-er nišikšu AML, 64: 4 SEAL “strong is his (scil. the dog’s) bite”. new
SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) [šumma ag]û ina libbišu ga-ši-ir Verderame 2002, 82 no. c: 14 (EAE) eBL “[if a tiar]a is strong in its middle”. The verb gašāru is used for two lunar phenomena: the “tiara” (a luminous or cloud-related phenomenon visible near the moon) and the lunar eclipse. Although in AHw 277 amāru G 10 it is considered an error for ga-mer/me!-er, the NA and NB parallels point towards an identification as a stative of gašāru. The commentaries LB 1321 o 28 (Borger 1973, 40) and IM.67598 r 17' equate gašāru with adāru I, whilst K.8493 and K.9505 11'–13' suggest kalû V as an alternative.