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Akkadian
pitpabaga - (an official)
(CAD P 436, AHw 869)
From Old Iranian *piθfa-baga- “distributor of provisions”. According to Dandamayev 1992, 38, “pit(i)pabaga distributed provisions for workmen (garda) of domains belonging to Persian nobility”.