*301-U-RA

light, radiance (personal name or epithet)

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Reading
naura
Confidence
Candidate
Root
*nūr- ‘fire’ 1, ‘to shine, sparkle’ 2, ‘light’ 3…
Kind
Personal name
Language
Semitic
Rank
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Compared forms

  • AmoriteNWR ‘shine’: janūr, nawarum, Nawar (Gelb AS 21, 28); PN NAWAR-I, written NA-WA-RI (Gelb AS 21 no. 5018)
  • Akkadiannamru, older nawru ‘bright, shiny, brilliant’ (CAD N/1 239)
  • Ugaritic𐎐𐎊𐎗nyrnyr ‘luminary’ (DULAT 644); nr ‘sheen, gleam; lamp’ (DULAT 633)
  • Arabicnawwara, anāra ‘it gave light, shone’; nawr ‘blossoms’ (Lane 2864)

Attestations1 cited

  1. HT 115a*301-U-RAlight, radiance (personal name), erased

Commentary

HT 115a, an accounting tablet with GRA+BOSm; in erasure on .2 (GORILA I 188–91). √n-w-r ‘to shine, give light’: Ug. nwr /nāra/, /yanūr-/ ‘to be bright, shine’ (Huehnergard 2012, 50), nrt ‘lamp’; Heb. נוּר nūr, nēr ‘lamp’; Ar. nūr. ‘Light’ is a common name element: Amorite Niwru and ʾAbu-niwra (Gelb 1980, nos. 5026, 162), Ebla nu-ru₁₂-ud ‘light’ (Pagan 1998, row 3919). Rival: *301 = r, which gives r-u-ra, an awkward reduplication. See NU-RO.

Rival readings

  • naʿarservant, retainer (root n-ʿ-r): Heb. נַעַר naʿar ‘lad, servant, retainer’. Suits a tablet listing people and grain just as well.

On the 3D inscriptions

Not written on any of the 82 inscriptions modelled so far.

Linear A Lexicon