qaqqaru
7Attestations
OB-LitOB-Lit: Old Babylonian literary texts šamāmī u ka-aq-qá-ra Pohl 2022, 203 i 6' SEAL “heaven and earth”. = VS 10, 213.
OB-LitOB-Lit: Old Babylonian literary texts atmākim ka-qá-ra-am šamāʾī UET 6/2, 395: l. e. SEAL “I have adjured you by earth and heaven”. Note the unusal paring “earth and heaven”. Lambert 1990 refers to an additional example in a then unpublished OAkk. incantation.
MA-LitMA-Lit: Middle Assyrian literary texts — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) ša GN u qaq-qa-ra-te-šu ukaʾʾilūni BBVoT 2, 23: 4 “(the former kings,) which held (possession) of GN and its territories”. new
MB-LitMB-Lit: Middle Babylonian literary texts ṣubātki damqa qa-⸢qa-ru⸣ lišeḫḫi Gilg. MB Ur 16 eBL “may the ground dirty your nice clothes!” Prev. cited AHw. 892 and CAD Q 53 s.v. qadūtu “mud”. See George 2003, 302; Llop 2011, 257f.
SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) PN … ina panija illikamma qaq-qa-ri ina panija iššiqma usappânnima RIMB 2, 296 i 31 “PN came before me and kissed the ground in front of me and (then) he pleaded with me”. See also RIMB 2, 292: 25 (partly restored); RIMB 2, 302 i 24. new
SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) qaq-qa-ri mēreši ina rēš kāpu āmurma RIMB 2, 298 iii 23 “I found soil (suitable) for cultivation at the top of a cliff”. new
SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) (comm.) kišid eperi : ša ina eperi nadû [ša]lšiš ša ina qaq-qar nadû CunMon. 49/2, 340: 4f. “‘reaching of dust’ (refers to) one cast into the dust; [thi]rdly, (it refers to) one cast to the ground”. Commentary Sakikkû XL 2. new
Discussion
The common by-form kaqqaru is the result of dissimilation (Streck 2022, 161), which in turn sometimes shows assimilation to kakkaru (ib. 160).
q. forms merismatic pairs with šamû and šamāmū, “heaven”, either following or preceeding them (see Wasserman 2003, 77f.).