gišnugallu
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Variant: išnugallu
Meanings:
(a white stone, such as limestone and magnesite)
de:German: Deutsch (ein weißer Stein wie Kalkstein und Magnesit)
Grammar:
pos: subst.Substantive
Etymology: Borrowed ＜ Sum.Sumerian ĝeš-nu₁₁-gal (ePSD2).
1Attestations
NBNB: Neo Babylonian (ca. 1000–626 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) [GABA.R]I tuppi ša na₄GIŠ.NU₁₁.GAL ša PN BM.54060 r. 1“copy of the g.- tablet of PN”. . See Jursa 2009, 150. new
Discussion
Objects declared by their inscriptions to be of gišnugallu have been found to be of limestone and magnesite; the term thus refers to a white stone (cf. Schuster-Brandis 2008, 412f.).