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Akkadian
purṭātu - (a shell or stone)
(CAD P 526)
Or purdātu. Var. puraṭ/dātu. Thompson’s (1936, 111) tentative comparison with Syr.
perdtā
“granulum” (LSyr. 593, SL 1229) is not to be ruled out