Variant: saḫsaḫtu, saḫsaḫḫu
Meanings:
alluvial land near a riverbank; (a skin affliction)
de:German: Deutsch Schwemmland in der Nähe des Flussufers; (eine Hauterkrankung)
fr:French: Français terrain alluvial situé près d'une berge ; (une affection cutanée)
a skin disease
de:German: Deutsch eine Hautkrankheit
Distribution: OBOB: Old Babylonian (ca. 2000–1600 BCE), SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE)
Domain: Landscape; bodies of water, wetlands; illness, disease
Grammar:
pos: subst.Substantivegender: masc.Masculinepattern: PaSPaS
11 attestation
Lexical
OB-LexOB-Lex: Old Babylonian lexical texts — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD)
⸢A⸣
=
sà-aḫ-sà-ḫu-um
Karpeles 1 i 12 (Aa) ↗DCCLT. following kibru and kāpu. new
22 attestationsAs diseases
SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD)
[šumma simmu šikinšu sām pe]ṣi šarka uṣṣīma
.[.].
saḫ*-saḫ*-ḫu šumšu
Sakikkû XXXIII 58 “[if the characteristic of a lesion is (that it is) red (and) whi]te, pus comes out and .[.]. –
s.
is its name”. Note the parallel(?) BAM 6, 580 iii 31′ (but disease name not preserved). Diff. Heeßel 2000, 356 and 370 (reading šàḫ-šàḫ-ḫu and translating “scoundrel”). new
SBSB: Standard Babylonian (ca. 1000–0 BCE) — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD)
girbānu sikk[a]tu ⸢ur?⸣-ḫu saḫ-saḫ-ḫu lipi alpi ṣītu
↗K.6057 i 18 eBL“lump-disease, peg-disease,
urḫu
(?)-disease,
s
.-disease, ox tallow, outgrowth”. . In Simmū maʾdū-incantation between other skin afflictions and diseases. new
Discussion
The semantic connection between “wetland” and “weeping skin condition” might also be present in saḫḫu I and saḫḫu II.
For the meaning “alluvial land near a riverbank” see George 2016, 132 and saḫsaḫtu.
Authors
Eric Schmidtchen, Janine Wende