Reposted by @7wra.bsky.socialBenjamin Suchard @bnuyaminim.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Actually, with that vocalization, the name could be Aramaic for 'saved by God' (not 'God is a saviour' as I first thought). 073
Reposted by @7wra.bsky.socialkobayashi ḫamṭu @mattboot.bsky.social · 08/05/2026today's Akkadian phrase is uznum rapaštum "understanding, intelligence" lit. "a wide ear" we are lucky enough to have it show up in one of the (100 BC–100 AD?) "Greco-Babylonian" student tablets as οζον ραφασθ at a stage where Babylonian had lost final short vowels. 27413
