# \*21F-RI-TU-QA (ha-ritūqa)

> the tied, sealed (packet)

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

- Reading: ha-ritūqa
- Confidence: Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once.
- Root: [\*rtḳ](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/3712/index.md>) 'to tie up, fetter; to close up'
- Kind: Commodity
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: \*21F · RI (ri) · TU (tu) · QA (qa)

## Compared forms

- Ugaritic: 𐎗𐎚𐎖 *rtq* — rtq 'to tie up, close' (DULAT 737)
- Eblaite: *ru₁₂-du-ga-tum rutuqt-* — ru₁₂-du-ga-tum rutuqt- 'binding, clamping' (GlOS 2, 174)
- Hebrew: *ruttəqû* — ruttəqû 'they were bound' (Nah 3:10); rətuqôt 'chains' (Isa 40:19); rattôq (Ezek 7:23)
- Arabic: *ratq* — ratq 'closed up' (Q 21:30)

## Attestations

- [HT 23a](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT23a/index.md>): \*21F-RI-TU-QA ¹⁄₁₆ — the tied, sealed packet

## Commentary

HT 23a, K-fraction entry between E 17 and sesame in an aromatics ledger; RI dotted (GORILA I 41). RI-TU-QA from √r-t-q 'to tie, bind': Ug. rtq (DULAT 737); Heb. ruttəqû (Nah 3:10), rətuqôt (Isa 40:19); Ar. ratq (Q 21:30). *21F the article ha-, as Punic writes the article h- or ʾ- (Krahmalkov 2000, 154). Weak point: the only article written *21F; no bare RI-TU-QA. One attestation.

## References

- Reading: di Mino; GlOS 2; Krahmalkov 2000
- Krahmalkov: Krahmalkov, Charles R. (2000), A Phoenician-Punic Dictionary. Peeters (Leuven)
- 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
- GORILA I: Godart, Louis; Olivier, Jean-Pierre (1976), Recueil des inscriptions en linéaire A, volume 1: Tablettes éditées avant 1970 (GORILA I). École française d'Athènes (Études crétoises XXI, 1); Librairie orientaliste Paul Geuthner, Paris
- GlOS 2: Sanmartín, Joaquín (2024), A Glossary of Old Syrian, Volume 2: l – z. Languages of the Ancient Near East 8/2,Eisenbrauns (Pennsylvania State University Press), University Park

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