# \*131B (tirōšu)

> must, new wine (unfermented or partially fermented grape juice) — commodity logogram

A Linear A word in the Linear A Lexicon. The reading is a proposal and carries its tier.

- Reading: tirōšu
- Confidence: Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once.
- Root: [\*tīrāṯ-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/S26/index.md>) 'new wine, must, grape juice'
- Kind: Commodity
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: \*131B

## Compared forms

- Hebrew: תִּירוֹשׁ *tīrōš* — tīrōš (תִּירוֹשׁ) 'must, new wine' (HALOT 1727; Deut 7:13, 11:14, 12:17; Hos 2:10; Joel 2:19)
- Ugaritic: 𐎚𐎗𐎘 *trṯ* — trṯ 'new wine', also a DN (DULAT 867)

## Attestations

- [ARKH 2](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/ARKH2/index.md>): KU-RA \*131B 5 — must, new wine (logogram), 5
- [ARKH 3a](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/ARKH3a/index.md>): \*131B 2 — must/new wine
- [ARKH 5](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/ARKH5/index.md>): \*131B 6 — must
- [ZA 10b](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/ZA10b/index.md>): DU-RE-ZA-SE \*131B 5

## Commentary

A wine-class logogram of the AB131 family, beside VIN 'wine' (wayn) and *131C 'vinegar': ARKH 2 KU-RA *131B 5 under the heading SI-DA-TE, ARKH 3a *131B 2 after OLIV 3⅕, ARKH 5 *131B 6 after A-DA-RO GRA 40, ZA 10b DU-RE-ZA-SE *131B 5. tirōšu 'must, new wine', Heb. tîrôš (HALOT 1727). The triad dāgān-tîrôš-yiṣhār (Deut 7:13) matches ARKH 3a's GRA, OLIV and *131B. On ZA 10b DU-RE-ZA-SE turēṯa-se 'for the must' stands before its own logogram. Rival: SigLA codes the ARKH 3a, ARKH 5 and ZA 10b tokens VINb, a variant of VIN, and reads ARKH 2 KU-RA-*131B as one word. Four attestations, at Arkhanes and Zakros.

## Same root

- [DU-RE-ZA-SE](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/DU-RE-ZA-SE/index.md>) (turēṯa-se)

## References

- Reading: di Mino
- HALOT: Koehler, Ludwig; Baumgartner, Walter; Stamm, Johann Jakob; Richardson, M. E. J. (trans. and ed.) (1994), The Hebrew and Aramaic Lexicon of the Old Testament, vols. I–IV. E. J. Brill, Leiden · New York · Köln
- DULAT: del Olmo Lete, Gregorio; Sanmartín, Joaquín (2015), A Dictionary of the Ugaritic Language in the Alphabetic Tradition. Brill, Leiden/Boston (Handbook of Oriental Studies 1/112); Third Revised Edition, tr. and ed. Wilfred G.E. Watson; 2 parts

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