# A-RA-U-DA (ʾArwada)

> Arwad (island city of the Phoenician coast), an entity in a transfer

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

- Reading: ʾArwada
- Confidence: Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once.
- Root: ʾArwad (Pre-Greek; non-Semitic per Noth, HALOT 85)
- Kind: Toponym
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: A (a) · RA (ra) · U (u) · DA (da)

## Compared forms

- Amarna: {uru}ar-wa-da (EA 98, 101, 105, 149); {uru}er₄-wa-da (EA 104)
- Ugarit (Akkadian): *{iri}a-ru-a-di-yu* — {iri}a-ru-a-di-yu 'Arwadian' (RS 19.0042, lines 15–16)
- Neo-Assyrian: {uru}ar-u₂-a-da (SAA 4); {uru}a-ru-ad-da (RINAP 4)
- Hebrew: ʾArwad (אַרְוַד) (Ezek 27:8, 11); gentilic hāʾarwādî (Gen 10:18)

## Attestations

- [KH 5](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/KH5/index.md>): A-DA-KI-SI-KA A-RA-U-DA — Arwad, second word of the heading

## Commentary

KH 5: A-DA-KI-SI-KA · A-RA-U-DA · over WI-SA-SA-NE CYP+E 2, VINb+WI 2, then WI-NA-DU · *301-NA ·, KU-PA-ZU CYP 3. Hogan reads the tablet as one transfer of CYP+E and VINb+WI to several entities, A-RA-U-DA among them (Hogan, in Salgarella and Petrakis, The Wor(l)ds of Linear A, 81): an entity slot, which a place fills. RA-U writes /raw/, as A-I writes /ay/: all four consonants ʾ-r-w-d stand in order, and SigLA reads U (AB10), not AU. Late Bronze Ugarit writes the gentilic {iri}a-ru-a-di-yu (RS 19.0042) with the same u for w. Rival: the personal name ʾArōd (Num 26:17). One attestation.

## In the onomasticon

- [A-RA-U-DA](<https://linear-a.ai/names/A-RA-U-DA/index.md>): Place, Semitic

## References

- Reading: di Mino; HALOT
- EA: Moran, William L. (1992), The Amarna Letters. Johns Hopkins University Press
- 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

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