gulgullum

Cognate with Arabic جُمْجُمَة (jumjuma) and Biblical Hebrew גֻּלְגֹּ֫לֶת (gulgólɛṯ). Compare also Egyptian

(ḏꜣḏꜣ, “head”).

• (Old Babylonian) IPA^(key): /ɡulˈɡul.lum/

gulgullum m (construct state gulgul, plural gulgullū or gulgullātum f) (from Old Babylonian on)

1. skull
2. (Neo-Babylonian) container shaped like a human skull

• gulgullu (non-mimated)
• gulgullatum, gulgullatu

• “gulgullu”, in The Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago (CAD)‎^[1], Chicago: University of Chicago Oriental Institute, 1956–2011
• Black, Jeremy, George, Andrew, Postgate, Nicholas (2000) “gulgullu(m)”, in A Concise Dictionary of Akkadian, 2nd corrected edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz Verlag, via the electronic Babylonian Library