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1Attestations
OBOB: Old Babylonian (ca. 2000–1600 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) awīlī ana kamʾātim leqêm aṭrudma umma anākuma pīqat kamʾū itât āl[im] ibaššû ... illikūma gi-ib-i tamšīl kamʾī ublūnimma awīlī šunū[ti] utēr umma anākuma ištū gi-ib-ú ibbašû kamʾī ātammarā illikūma kamʾī ītammarū anūmma kamʾī ša ublūnim [a]na ṣēr bēlija ušābilam [ka]mʾī šināti ARM 27, 54: 12, 16 ARCHIBAB “I dispatched men to collect white truffles, saying: 'Perhaps there are white truffles around the city.' … They went and brought red truffles resembling white truffles, and I turned back those men saying: 'Since there were red truffles, look everywhere for white truffles!' They went and looked everywhere for white truffles. Now I have sent to my lord the white truffles that they brought. Those [white truf]fles …”. new
Discussion
Cf. Heimpel 1997c; Heimpel 2003, 429: “toadstools”, “specifically perhaps agaricus xanthoderma”; Stol 2014, 149: cf. arab. ǧebaʿ “red truffles”.