# \*188-\*308 (buṭnu šamni)

> terebinth oil, the Pistacia product \*188 with \*308 'pressed oil'

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

- Reading: buṭnu šamni
- Confidence: Candidate. A comparison worth testing; the evidence is thin or the word is rare.
- Root: [\*buṭm(-at)-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/3201/index.md>) 'terebinth, pistachio' + [\*šam(a)n-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/2014/index.md>) 'fat (also oil)'
- Kind: Commodity
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: \*188 · \*308

## Compared forms

- Akkadian: *buṭnu* — buṭnu 'terebinth' (CAD B 358); šamnu 'oil, fat, cream' (CAD Š/1 321)
- Hebrew: *boṭnîm* — boṭnîm 'pistachio nuts', Gen 43:11 (HALOT 121); šemen 'oil, fat' (HALOT 1567)
- Ugaritic: 𐎌𐎎𐎐 *šmn* — šmn 'oil; fat, butter' (DULAT 815)

## Attestations

- [HT 123+124b](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT123~2B124b/index.md>): \*188-\*308 11 — Pistacia/terebinth oil or related processed product(?)

## Commentary

HT 123+124b .1 *188-*308 11, the first entry, before *312 1¾: terebinth oil, *188 buṭnu 'terebinth' (CAD B 358) with *308 šamni 'oil' (CAD Š/1 321), the oil modifier that follows OLIV four times on HT 123+124a. The tablet is damaged, and its preserved quantities do not sum to KU-RO 20, KI-RO 5. See *188 and *308.

## Same root

- [\*188](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/*188/index.md>) (buṭnu)
- [\*308](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/*308/index.md>) (šamnu)
- [OLE](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/OLE/index.md>)
- [A-SA-MU-NE](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/A-SA-MU-NE/index.md>) (ʾAšmūn)
- [PA₃-\*188](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/PA~E2~82~83-*188/index.md>) (bu-buṭnu)

## References

- Reading: di Mino; CAD B; CAD Š/1; HALOT; DULAT
- 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
- CAD B: Oriental Institute (A. Leo Oppenheim and Erica Reiner, eds.) (1965), The Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, vol. 2, B. The Oriental Institute, Chicago; J. J. Augustin, Glückstadt
- CAD Š/1: Oriental Institute (Erica Reiner, ed.) (1989), The Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, vol. 17, Š, part 1. The Oriental Institute, Chicago

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