nāmaru
DRAFT
Variant: nāmeru
Meanings:
mirror; watch tower; window
Distribution: LBLB: Late Babylonian (ca. 626 BCE – 100 CE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD)
Grammar:
pos: subst.Substantivegender: masc.Masculineroot: ʾmrI/ʾ; I/a (primae ʾaleph)pattern: maPRaS
3As decorative part of a nūbalu-palanquin, perhaps a window
OBOB: Old Babylonian (ca. 2000–1600 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) (1 mina 15 ½ shekel of purified silver) ana na-ma-ri-im ARM 32, 64f. M.11848 5 ARCHIBAB “for the n.” new
OBOB: Old Babylonian (ca. 2000–1600 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) (gold scraps) 1 iṣṣūrum ša na-ma-ri ARM 32, 64f. M.10463 20 ARCHIBAB “of a bird (decoration) from the n.” new
OBOB: Old Babylonian (ca. 2000–1600 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) na-ma-ri ša nūbal ḫurāṣim ša PN ARM 32, 64f. M.11283 6 ARCHIBAB “the n. of the golden palanquin of PN”. new
Arkhipov 2012, 64f. separates these instances from nāmaru “mirror” (for which see ib. p. 170f. with refs.) and interprets them as a decorative technique.
Discussion
The by-form namru (CAD N/1, 219f.) has been removed (von Soden 1984, 32).