maḫḫû
1 Lexical
Commentaries
SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) (comm.) lúan-dib-ba-ra : ní-⸢zu⸣-ra-a[ḫ : kur-gar-r]a lúan-sal-la : maḫ-ḫu-u : aḫurrû : kurgarraʾu : [ a]ss[innu] CunMon. 49/2, 7: 34 “(... refer to) ecstatic, junior(?), kurgarrû -performer, (and) assinnu -functionary”. Commentary Sakikkû I 31. Cf. the partly parallel commentary Wee 2019, 66: 8′f. new
Discussion
The attestation TCS 1, 369: 5 (Ur III), which was previously assumed to represent the earliest attestation of maḫḫû in CAD M/1, 90 maḫḫû d more likely belongs to the adj. of maḫû. OB forms like muḫḫû likewise seem to represent D-stem adjs. of the same verb, see Kouwenberg 2010, 292 fn. 19.
OB attestations (also from OB Elam) are written logographically according to which it remains uncertain if maḫḫû or the substantivally used adjs. maḫû (G) or muḫḫû (D) were meant.