guḫlu
REVIEW
Meanings:
kohl; bdellium(?)
Domain: Materials and substances
Grammar:
pos: subst.Substantive
Logogram: ŠIM.BI.ZI.DA
2Attestations
LBLB: Late Babylonian (ca. 626 BCE – 100 CE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) 2 na₄ŠIM.BI.ZI.DA SpTU 4, 219: 1 GKAB. Inventory of stones. new
LBLB: Late Babylonian (ca. 626 BCE – 100 CE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) še rebītu gu-uḫ-li AOAT 414/1, 80: 16 “bdellium(?) for 1/4 shekel”. Next to murru. new
Discussion
After Potts et al. 1996, 291-305, guḫlu is not “antimony” but rather bdellium (the gum of Commiphora mukul), and Sanskrit guggulu is borrowed from Akkadian. But note that bdellium has also been identified with budulḫu (see Jursa 2009, 158 fn. 51).
See SAD G 22.