DA-DU-MA-TA

HT 95a .1 DA-DU-MA-TA · GRA, heading the grain list DA-ME 10, MI-NU-TE 10, SA-RU 20, KU-NI-SU 10, DI-DE-RU 10, QE-RA₂-U 7; HT 95b gives the same list under A-DU ·. A band of lost surface between MA and TA is wider than the other gaps but holds no sign position. dadmatu ‘settlement(s)’, feminine of *damdam- ‘inhabited land’: Akkadian dadmū ‘the inhabited world (settlements and inhabitants)’ (CAD D 18), Amorite dadmum and fem. dadmītum (Gelb 1980, 17), the Mari name Da-ad-mi-tum (Gelb 1980, no. 1394), Old Syrian dadm ‘totality; country’ (GlOS 1, 141); cf. Punic ʾdmt ‘land’ (KAI 145.3; DNWSI 14–15). Woudhuizen (2016, 226–227) reads the same word but takes it as ‘goddesses of the dwellings’. The U of DU echoes no vowel of the word. Rivals: dādu-mātu ‘beloved land’ (√d-w-d + Akk. mātu), though both languages put the head noun first (māt dādi); Hadad-mattān ‘gift of Hadad’, parallel to A-DU on side b, with Ha- lost and final -n unwritten. One attestation.