Qabra

An excavation in Iraqi Corduene has unearthed cuneiform. The Stele of Dadusha, at Eshnunna, refers to a "Qabra" around here.

Dadusha was an aristocrat c. 1830-1760 BC, the era of Hammurabi's Dynasty. His stele is about how he killed Qabra's lord Banu-Ishtar.

Some mysteries I got include: what kind of name is "Banu-Ishtar". It sounds more like a tribe. Maybe that's the Arabist in me . . .

Also, um, Ishtar was female. I'd expect a -t ending in female names of this era; indeed we read much of "Asharat", Aramaic "Astarta" and Hebrew "Ashera". I gather that Akkadian dropped this feminine suffix in this one case. How to explain "Qabra", then? It looks Semitic with no -t. Do we have the Aramaic emphatic already? Hammurabi is very early for Aramaic, they were still looking at Amoritic then.