*188

HT 123+124b, damaged, has three forms: *188-*308 11, *188 1 and *188-DU 10, quantities with no recoverable relation. *308, pressed oil, also follows OLIV on HT 123+124a. *188 stands with VIN on HT 98b, on the Khania roundels, and as *188-DU-SE on PSI Za 1, a ritual text. buṭnu, a Pistacia product: Heb. boṭnîm ‘pistachio nuts’ (Gen 43:11; HALOT 121), Akk. buṭnu ‘terebinth’ (CAD B 358), Arb. buṭm ‘terebinth, its fruit’ (Lane 219). Ebla writes the word bù-da-ma-tim and GIŠ.EŠ₁₁ = buₓ-du-du ‘pistachio’ (GlOS 1, 131), and has bu₃-du-du as a name (Pagan 1998, row 1278). Weak point: PA₃-*188 (HT 8b) supports a b-initial reading only with PA₃ as a phonetic complement, and Soldani’s derivation of *188 from CH 009 (Ferrara, Montecchi and Valério 2022, 96) fixes neither the commodity nor its name. Twenty-eight attestations.