*363-KE-MA-SE
the one of Šakmu (Shechem) (gentilic in -SE on the toponym)
- Reading
- Šakma-se
- Confidence
- Speculative
- Root
- *ṯVkm- ‘neck and shoulders’
- Kind
- Personnel
- Language
- Semitic
- Rank
- —
Compared forms
- Hebrewšǝkemšǝkem ‘shoulder, mountain ridge’; Šǝkem Shechem, gentilic haš-šikmî (Num 26:31)
- Ugaritic𐎘𐎋𐎎ṯkmṯkm ‘shoulder’ > ‘top’ (DULAT 890)
- AmarnaKUR ša-ak-miKUR ša-ak-mi ‘the land of Šakmu’, Shechem (EA 289)
- AmoriteŠKM: Šākim, DN (Gelb 1980, 33); ŠAKIM-UM, ŠA-KI-MU-UM (no. 5804)
- Egyptianskmimi, Shechem, Execration Texts, Brussels E6 (Streit 2017, 64–65)
Attestations1 cited
- ZA 15a*363-KE-MA-SE 5
Commentary
ZA 15a .7 *363-KE-MA-SE 5, the last entry of the wine issue headed *47-KU-NA, after SA-MI-DA-E 4 (GORILA III 183). Intact, no dots. *363 at its proposed value SO: so-ke-ma writes škm, the Hebrew and Akkadian reflex of PS *ṯkm; the rival value ṮA gives the same root. Shechem is Skmimi of the Execration Texts (Brussels E6; Streit 2017, 63). -SE as on RU-MA-TA-SE beside bare RU-MA-TA, and on MI-ZA-SE on the same face: town and gentilic, as Šǝkem and šikmî. Rival: the Amorite name Šakim (ŠA-KI-MU-UM; Gelb 1980, no. 5804). Weak point: SigLA reads the sign A364, which Melena sets beside Linear B so and do (Melena 2014, 85–86); its value is unresolved.
On the 3D inscriptions
Not written on any of the 82 inscriptions modelled so far.