# \*363-KE-MA-SE (Šakma-se)

> the one of Šakmu (Shechem) (gentilic in -SE on the toponym)

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

- Reading: Šakma-se
- Confidence: Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once.
- Root: [\*ṯVkm-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/2037/index.md>) 'neck and shoulders'
- Kind: Personnel
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: \*363 · KE (ke) · MA (ma) · SE (se)

## Compared forms

- Hebrew: *šǝkem* — šǝkem 'shoulder, mountain ridge'; Šǝkem Shechem, gentilic haš-šikmî (Num 26:31)
- Ugaritic: 𐎘𐎋𐎎 *ṯkm* — ṯkm 'shoulder' > 'top' (DULAT 890)
- Amarna: *KUR ša-ak-mi* — KUR ša-ak-mi 'the land of Šakmu', Shechem (EA 289)
- Amorite: ŠKM: Šākim, DN (Gelb 1980, 33); ŠAKIM-UM, ŠA-KI-MU-UM (no. 5804)
- Egyptian: skmimi, Shechem, Execration Texts, Brussels E6 (Streit 2017, 64–65)

## Attestations

- [ZA 15a](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/ZA15a/index.md>): \*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.

## In the onomasticon

- [\*363-KE-MA-SE](<https://linear-a.ai/names/*363-KE-MA-SE/index.md>): Gentilic, Semitic

## References

- Reading: di Mino; Gelb 1980; DULAT; Streit 2017; Melena 2014
- EA: Moran, William L. (1992), The Amarna Letters. Johns Hopkins University Press
- Streit, Katharina (2017), A Maximalist Interpretation of the Execration Texts—Archaeological and Historical Implications of a High Chronology. Journal of Ancient Egyptian Interconnections,13,59–69
- AS 21: Gelb, Ignace J. (1980), Computer-aided Analysis of Amorite. Assyriological Studies 21,The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago
- 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 III: Godart, Louis; Olivier, Jean-Pierre (1976), Recueil des inscriptions en linéaire A, volume 3: Tablettes, nodules et rondelles édités en 1975 et 1976 (GORILA III). École française d'Athènes (Études crétoises XXI, 3); Librairie orientaliste Paul Geuthner, Paris
- Melena, José L. (2014), Mycenaean Writing. In Duhoux, Y.; Morpurgo Davies, A. (eds.), A Companion to Linear B: Mycenaean Greek Texts and their World, vol. 3,Bibliothèque des Cahiers de l'Institut de Linguistique de Louvain 133,Peeters,1–186

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