# A-RA-TU-ME (ʾarṣ̂atum)

> earth (feminine noun with mimation—cf. Akk. erṣetum)

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

- Reading: ʾarṣ̂atum
- Confidence: Candidate. A comparison worth testing; the evidence is thin or the word is rare.
- Root: [\*ʾar(V)ṣ̂-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/768/index.md>) 'earth'
- Kind: Toponym
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: A (a) · RA (ra) · TU (tu) · ME (me)

## Compared forms

- Akkadian: erṣetum "earth, land, ground"—standard fem. citation form with mimation (ORACC freq. 62)
- Ugaritic: 𐎀𐎗𐎕 *ʾarṣ* — ʾarṣ "earth"
- Hebrew: אֶרֶץ *ʾereṣ* — ʾereṣ (אֶרֶץ) "earth, land"

## Attestations

- [HT Wc 3024](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HTWc3024/index.md>): A-RA-TU-ME

## Commentary

Hapax heading on the roundel HT Wc 3024. Mimated form of A-RA-TU (ZA 7a). Feminine mimation is the Proto-Semitic nonbound singular, *ṭāb-at-u-m (Huehnergard 2019, 59–60, Table 3.7), kept in Akk. erṣetum 'earth' (CAD E 308), Amorite a-še-ra-tum and ḫa-na-tum (George and Krebernik 2022, 131), and the names Ḥananatum, Ḥayyatum (Gelb 1980, nos. 477, 1809). The corpus's only feminine with mimation; masculine singulars take it rarely too (RI-SU-MA, MA-RU-ME). A roundel is a sealed receipt, and its heading names the item in citation form, where mimation stands. See A-RE-TU-MI.

## Same root

- [A-RA-TU](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/A-RA-TU/index.md>) (ʾarṣ̂atu)
- [A-RE-TU-MI](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/A-RE-TU-MI/index.md>) (ʾarṣ̂-ummī)

## References

- Reading: di Mino; Huehnergard 2019; CAD E; George and Krebernik 2022; Gelb 1980
- ORACC: Oracc Steering Committee, Oracc: The Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus. University of Pennsylvania Museum; CC BY-SA 3.0 unless otherwise stated
- AS 21: Gelb, Ignace J. (1980), Computer-aided Analysis of Amorite. Assyriological Studies 21,The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago
- George, Andrew R.; Krebernik, Manfred (2022), Two Remarkable Vocabularies: Amorite-Akkadian Bilinguals!. Revue d'assyriologie et d'archéologie orientale,116,Presses Universitaires de France,113–166
- Huehnergard, John (2019), Proto-Semitic. In Huehnergard, John; Pat-El, Na‘ama (eds.), The Semitic Languages,Routledge,49–79
- CAD E: Oriental Institute (A. Leo Oppenheim, ed.) (1958), The Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, vol. 4, E. The Oriental Institute, Chicago

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