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On the Assyrian words for “whetstone” and “corundum”
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 March 2011
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CT. xiv, 17, 1–2, and 15,1–2, and Matouš, Lex. Taf., No. 88, 2, 46–7, give the equivalences takKALAG.GA, tak(alu)KA. ŠAL.LA, and aban ki-su-si as all equal to taksû.
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page 343 note 1 For abbreviations see JRAS. 1929, 801, and 1933, 885.
page 343 note 2 Cf. ibid., 32–3, ḳar-ra-du a-na taksi-e (Sum. takSU. U) takka-šur-ri-e iz-ziz-ma i- . . . “the hero unto the sû-stone, basalt, presented himself and . . .” Can the takkašurrî be a gloss to taksî?
page 344 note 1 AM. shows that these are to be threaded on a cord and hung on the neck with an appropriate incantation.
page 345 note 1 PRSM. 1924, 24.
page 345 note 2 That the word for arsenic is to be read takAS. ḪAR is obvious from the form in KAR. 71, 9 (Ebeling, MDAG. v, 3, 31) anaku AS.ḪAR našaku takAS.ḪAR pa- . . . lisaḫra, etc. Similar puns will be found in Maḳlu, v, 30 ff.