*364-KE-MA-SE

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

*364not in the font𐘥KEAB4410 entries𐙁MAAB8057 entries𐘈SEAB0934 entries
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)
  • Amarnaša-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

  1. ZA 15a*364-KE-MA-SE 5

Commentary

ZA 15a .7 *364-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. SigLA reads the first sign A364, the Zakros form of *324. At *324's value ṮA, ṯa-ke-ma writes ṯkm, PS *ṯVkm-; 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. Rivals: the Amorite name Šakim (ŠA-KI-MU-UM; Gelb 1980, no. 5804); at the rival value SO, so-ke-ma gives the same root.

On the 3D inscriptions

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

Linear A Lexicon