lakûtu
21. In therapeutic and diagnostic texts
SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) šumma ina la-ku-⸢ti⸣-šú laqišma * Sakikkû XXXIII 37 “if it (the lesion?) is proliferating(?) in his childhood(?)”. See also Sakikkû XXXIII 36 (omits -šú), 44–47, 51–53 (partly restored). The expression appears here always together with laqišma. new
SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) [..]. ⸢ la?⸣-ku?-ta-šu um⸢mu⸣rā talattinnu šumšu CTN 4, 116: r 34′ eBL “[..]. (in) his childhood(?) are swollen – talattinnu is its name”. See the partly parallel Sakikkû XXXIII 43 and Steinert 2018, 214: 59 and ib. 218: 123 (Assur Medical Catalogue) (DIŠ GIG [... la?-k]u-ta-šú um-mu-rat (|| -ra)). new
12. Further Attestations
SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) [ina l]a-ku-u-ti-ia uzzammi puḫra in[a] bīt tuppi ušābi Livingston 1989, 12: 8 “(already) [in] my [ch]ildhood, I had longed for the assembly (and) to sit in the tablet house”. Note also in partly broken context K. 6928 r 12′ (ultu la-ku-ti-i[a? ...] “since m[y] childhood”). new
Discussion
In the medical sources, the word appears in contexts in which we might also expect either a body part or a particular phenomenon or state (like a skin affliction, mole etc.). Thus, a noun, probably connected with lakû III “crooked(?)” (derived from Sum.), cannot be excluded.