# \*401+RU

> ruqqû-ru 'aromatic preparation (with phonetic complement RU confirming /ru-/ onset)'

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

- Reading: none proposed
- Confidence: Candidate. A comparison worth testing; the evidence is thin or the word is rare.
- Root: [\*rVḳVḥ-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/S15/index.md>) 'to mix aromatics, compound ointment' 1, 'perfumer, ointment-mixer' 2
- Kind: Commodity
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: \*401 · RU (ru)

## Compared forms

- Akkadian: *ruqqû* — ruqqû 'to prepare perfume'; ruqqû adj. 'perfumed (oil)' (CAD R 420)
- Ugaritic: 𐎗𐎖𐎈 *rqḥ* — rqḥ 'perfumer'; šmn rqḥ 'perfumer's oil', KTU 4.91:5 (DULAT 734)
- Hebrew: *rōqaḥ* — rōqaḥ 'mixture of ointments' (HALOT 1290)
- Phoenician: 𐤓𐤒𐤇 *rqḥ* — rqḥ 'ointment, perfume, spice' (Krahmalkov 447)

## Attestations

- [KH 12](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/KH12/index.md>): \*401+RU 𐝍𐝫
- [KH 63](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/KH63/index.md>): \*401+RU 𐝉𐝫 — aromatic preparation
- [KH 83](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/KH83/index.md>): 15 \*401+RU
- [KH 84](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/KH84/index.md>): \*401+RU
- [KH 85](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/KH85/index.md>): \*401+RU ¹⁄₁₆
- [KH 91](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/KH91/index.md>): \]\*401+RU ¹⁄₁₆ — aromatic preparation
- [KN Zg 57a](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/KNZg57a/index.md>): \*401+RO \*401+RO \*401+\*304 \*401+RU \*418+L2 \[…\] \[…\] \[…\] \[…\] NI \[…\] \[…\] \[…\] \[…\] VAS \[…\] \[…\] — perfumed-oil vessel (lexicon *401+RU; first Knossos attestation—all six prior at Khania)

## Commentary

*401 with the rider RU, which gives the ru- onset of its proposed value RUQQÛ: Akk. ruqqû 'perfumed (oil)' and ruqqû 'to prepare perfume' (CAD R 420). Six Khania documents, KH 12 twice, KH 63, KH 83, KH 84, KH 85 and KH 91, and KN Zg 57a, the ivory sceptre ring from Knossos. Counted in fractions (¹⁄₁₆ on KH 85 and KH 91), it stands with CYP, MI+JA+RU (myrrh), *308 (šamnu) and OLE+TA (fine oil): an aromatic. KH 91 writes *401+RU beside *401+RA, two compounds on one tablet. Cf. *401+*304 (RUQQÛ+PIDRU, 'aromatic fat'). See *401.

## Same root

- [\*401](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/*401/index.md>) (ruqqû)
- [OLE+RI](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/OLE~2BRI/index.md>) (riqqu)
- [VIN+RA](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/VIN~2BRA/index.md>) (raqḥ)
- [RO-KE](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/RO-KE/index.md>) (rōqēaḥ)
- [RO-QA](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/RO-QA/index.md>) (rōqaḥ)

## References

- Reading: di Mino; CAD R
- KTU: Dietrich, Manfried; Loretz, Oswald; Sanmartín, Joaquín (2013), Die keilalphabetischen Texte aus Ugarit, Ras Ibn Hani und anderen Orten / The Cuneiform Alphabetic Texts from Ugarit, Ras Ibn Hani and Other Places (KTU³). Ugarit-Verlag, Münster (Alter Orient und Altes Testament 360/1); ISBN 978-3-86835-014-2
- Krahmalkov: Krahmalkov, Charles R. (2000), A Phoenician-Punic Dictionary. Peeters (Leuven)
- HALOT: Koehler, Ludwig; Baumgartner, Walter; Stamm, Johann Jakob; Richardson, M. E. J. (trans. and ed.) (1994), The Hebrew and Aramaic Lexicon of the Old Testament, vols. I–IV. E. J. Brill, Leiden · New York · Köln
- 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
- CAD R: Oriental Institute (Erica Reiner and Martha T. Roth, eds.) (1999), The Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, vol. 14, R. The Oriental Institute, Chicago

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