*301

pastureland, pastoral product (commodity logogram: nawum in administrative register, nawā in ritual/general)

𐙕*301*30111 entries
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Reading
nawā
Confidence
Probable
Root
*nwy ‘pasture land, grazing place’ 1, ‘abode…’
Kind
Commodity
Language
Semitic
Rank
#43 of the top 100

Compared forms

  • Akkadiannawûmnawûm ‘steppe, uncultivated pastureland’ (CAD N/1, 249–51)—administrative land-use category in OB economic texts
  • Amoritenawûmnawûm ‘steppe; encampment (man and beast)’ (Huffmon, APNM 237); nawijum ‘nomadic encampment’ (Gelb, AS 21)
  • Hebrewnāwehnāweh ‘habitation, pasture-land’ (KB); cultic sense ‘shrine, temple’ at Exod 15:13 (ʾel nəwēh qodšeḵā ‘to Thy holy shrine’)
  • Greekναόςnaosναός (naos) ‘temple, inner sanctum’ < *nawos (Bernal 1987; endorsed Rendsburg 1989)

Attestations240 cited

  1. HT 10a*301 6pastureland, pastoral product (logogram), 6
  2. HT 110b*301 ³⁄₄
  3. HT 127b*301 11counted class, 11
  4. HT 55a]*301 1unread
  5. HT Wa 1025J-*301
  6. HT Wa 1026E-*301
  7. HT Wa 1029*301-*301
  8. HT Wa 1030*301-*301

Commentary

A commodity logogram: 242 standalone occurrences on 240 documents, 89% of its 272 uses, concentrated at Haghia Triada on nodules and tablets, 231 of them on HT nodules. It takes the commodity-label slot of GRA (dagān), OLE (šamnu), VIN (wayn) and CYP (cyperus) and names the pastoral class: nawum, with mimation (Mari na-wu-um, GlOS 2, 116), the land-use term for uncultivated pastureland and its goods, livestock, wool and dairy, against cultivated cereals (GRA) and orchard products (OLE, OLIV, VIN). In ritual use the same root gives nawā ‘dwelling, abode’, compared with Greek ναός ‘temple’. The syllabic value na is acrophonic, the first syllable of nawā(n), as cuneiform É bītu ‘house’ gives bi; the formula verb A-TA-I-*301-WA-JA, from the same √n-w-y, writes *301 where NA would serve. See NU-WI.

On the 3D inscriptions

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

Linear A Lexicon