A-RA-JU

a town of the kingdom of Ugarit, on the Ugarit–Alalakh border (toponym); rival Aralu

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Reading
ʾArāyu
Confidence
Speculative
Root
ʾArāyu (Pre-Greek)
Kind
Toponym
Language
Semitic
Rank
—

Compared forms

  • Ugariticaryary ‘Arāyu’ (KTU 4.49:3; 4.68:8; 4.244:18; 4.380:23; DULAT 108, ảry II)
  • Akkadian (Alalaḫ, rival)ᵘʳᵘA-la-la-aḫ (AIT 1:7; RGTC 12/2, 8)
  • Akkadian (Ugarit)ᵘʳᵘA-ra-yu (RS 34.131 [RSOu 7 Nr. 4]:40); ᵘʳᵘA-ra-[ya] (RS 20.143B [Ug. 5 Nr. 103]:4′) (RGTC 12/2, 30); DULAT 108 reads RS 34.131:40 URU a-ra-wa and restores a-r[a-yu at RS 20.143B:4

Attestations2 cited

  1. HT 109A-RA-JU 123ʾArāyu, a town of the kingdom of Ugarit (toponym), 123; rival Aralu
  2. HT 122b3DA-RA-JU-U-DE-ZA 2

Commentary

HT 109 .4 A-RA-JU 123, after KU-RO 129, and HT 122b .3 A-RA-JU-U-DE-ZA 2, each at the broken left edge; GORILA brackets HT 109's KU-RO line alike, and both lines begin with A (GORILA I 176–177, 208–209). With JU’s second value yu, the yod (Melena 2014, 16), A-RA-JU spells ᵘʳᵘA-ra-yu sign for sign: ʾArāyu, a town of the kingdom of Ugarit on the border between Ugarit and Alalaḫ (van Soldt 1994, apud RGTC 12/2, 30). Rival: Aralu under the primary value lu, nearest place Alalaḫ, ᵘʳᵘA-la-la-aḫ, one vowel off with the final ḫ unwritten (RGTC 12/2, 8). HT 122b, under JE-DI · *346 · VIR, writes it with U-DE-ZA, listed alone on HT 122a.

On the 3D inscriptions

Not written on any of the 82 inscriptions modelled so far (a cited inscription is modelled, but its transcription has the word broken or spelled differently).

Linear A Lexicon