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gidlu

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Variant: gidlû, gidalu (?)

Meanings:

plaited string, rope; a door curtain

Distribution: ,

Domain: Textiles; non-apparel textiles; food production and preparation; textile production; jewelry

Grammar:

pos: pattern:

Etymology: Borrowed ＜ See Cherry 2023, 113f.: “the West-Semitic evidence points probably to an early West-Semitic loan in Babylonian, which lingered in LB, as well as a later borrowing into NA particularly from Aramaic in the sense ‘braid, plait’.”

21. String, bundle

LBLB: Late Babylonian (ca. 626 BCE – 100 CE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) ⸢gid-di-il⸣ ina šūmi ešrû ša DN CT 22, 8: 5 “a plait of garlic, tithe of DN”. = AOAT 414/1, 3: 5. ^new

LBLB: Late Babylonian (ca. 626 BCE – 100 CE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) gi-id-lu šakk[ūtu] ša SUM.HUŠ.SAR BSA 3, 74 no. 110 CBS.88 1–2, 8–9 “strung bundles of (red?) onions”. ^new

32. As curtain

LBLB: Late Babylonian (ca. 626 BCE – 100 CE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) gada!gi-id-lu-ú CT 55, 439: 10. Also gada!gi-＜id＞-lu-ú ša DN CT 55, 858: 7. ^new

LBLB: Late Babylonian (ca. 626 BCE – 100 CE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) (wool) ana nīri ša gada!gi-da-lu-ú u šiddānu CT 4, 27 Bu 88-5-12, 336 14 “for ropes for door curtains and covers”. Cf. gi-da-lu YOS 6, 146: 11; gada!gi-da-lu-ú GCCI 2, 360: 25 Both cited in CAD K 148 s.v. kandalu. ^new

LBLB: Late Babylonian (ca. 626 BCE – 100 CE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) ⸢kuš⸣šiddānu ana gi-di-il-ʾ ša PN CT 56, 10: 2 “covers for the door curtains of PN”. See Beaulieu 2003, 381f with add. refs. ^new

Discussion

Beaulieu 2003, 381f. For the variant gidalu see Stol 1983, 299 and Oelsner in Or. 58, 278.

The LB refs. read bulû in CAD B 313 and AHw. 138 belong here (Beaulieu 2003, 381f.).

For the door curtain, cf. gadalalû?

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