makūtu I

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Variant: makkūtu
Meanings:
staff, pole, post, pillar
de:German: Deutsch Stange, Pfahl, Pfosten, Säule
fr:French: Français bâton, poteau, pilier, colonne
Distribution: OBOB: Old Babylonian (ca. 2000–1600 BCE), OB-LitOB-Lit: Old Babylonian literary texts, SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE), NBNB: Neo Babylonian (ca. 1000–626 BCE)
Grammar:
pos: subst.Substantive
Etymology: Derived < makkû (?) Note Aram./Aram. mkw, mkwtʾ (*māḵū, māḵūṯā) “inflated skin used as raft”, probably a loan from Akk., see Sokoloff 2009, 757; Sokoloff 2002, 675; Jastrow 782. The connection to Aram./Syr. mkwt, mkwtʾ/mḥwt, mḥwtʾ suggested in AHw 591 makūtu seems, however, less likely.
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Commentaries

SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) (comm.) ma-ku-tum tallu ! CunMon. 49/2, 283: 2 “pole (means) (carrying) pole (or ‘dividing line’)”. Commentary Sakikkû XXI/XXIIa (unknown entry). Positioned in an argumentation concerning the faltering of hair. new

21. Pillar

OB-LitOB-Lit: Old Babylonian literary texts bītam liḫīṭ ma-ka-a-tim liddiš tamlīʾam limallīma Wilcke 2017, 743: 64 “(the one who takes away my foundation inscriptions …) he shall inspect the house, renew the pillars (and) (re)fill the platform”.

OB-LitOB-Lit: Old Babylonian literary texts ma-ka-a-tim ša agurrim manīʾāt kisallim simat ilūtiša Wilcke 2017, 472: 39 “(I built) pillars of backed bricks (according to) the measurements of the courtyard befitting her (viz. Ulmašītum’s) divinity”. Cf. ma-ka-a-tim ša kuprim u agurrim ZA 113, 160: 8.

12. As term ref. to the body or its shape

SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) ultu qaqqadišu adi šēpīšu lānšu ma-ku-u[s-su] mešrêtišu u minâtišu liḫī[p l]īmur lišteʾʾēma u lippalis[su] MesCiv. 13, 3a: 9 eBL “should (the barber) cleanse, see, seek out, and look [him] over from head to toe: his body, [his] figure(?), his limbs, his body parts?” for makūtu as a body part, albeit of a donkey, cf. makūt gabīdi (ša imēri) (CAD G, 6 s.v. gabīdu b).

13. As anatomical feature

SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) šumma ma-ku-ut libbi īši AfO Bh. 27, 162: 181 “if (a woman) has m. of the body”. A disease or feature of the lower abdomen. new

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