# A-RI-SU (ḥārišu)

> the craftsman, artisan (title)

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

- Reading: ḥārišu
- Confidence: Candidate. A comparison worth testing; the evidence is thin or the word is rare.
- Root: [\*ḥaraš-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/2721/index.md>) 'craftsman, artisan'
- Kind: Occupation
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: A (a) · RI (ri) · SU (su)

## Compared forms

- Ugaritic: 𐎈𐎗𐎌 *ḥrš* — ḥrš 'craftsman, manual worker; artisan, builder' (DULAT 366)
- Hebrew: *ḥārāš* — ḥārāš 'craftsman' (HALOT 358)
- Phoenician: ḥrš, ḥōreš 'artisan, craftsman' (Krahmalkov 198)

## Attestations

- [HT 118](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT118/index.md>): A-RI-SU 4 — the craftsman; recipient of pigs

## Commentary

HT 118 A-RI-SU 4, with KI 1 owed, in a pig account among MA-DI, QA-QA-RU (Qaqqaru) and RI-RU-MA, KU-RO 30. ḥārišu 'the craftsman', the qātil participle: Ugaritic ḥrš 'craftsman, manual worker; artisan, builder' (DULAT 366); Ugarit's polyglot list ḫa-ra-šu 'craftsman, builder' (GlOS 1, 251); Amorite ḥariš-, *ḥāriṯ- 'artificer, worker', from *ḥrṯ 'engrave, cut', in the Mari name Ḫa-ri-ša-an (Huffmon 1965, 205). A title in a recipient list, as QA-*310-I qaynī 'the smith' takes KI-oil on HT 8a. Rivals: a personal name ʾarīšu on √ʾ-r-š 'to request': Amorite ʾARUŚ-U (A-RU-SU; Gelb 1980, no. 511), glossary ʾariśum; A-RE-SA-NA (THE Zb 2) is read on that root. Akkadian eršu B (Neo-Assyrian aršu) 'drilled, plowed and sown', substantivally 'drilled field' (CAD E 314), a sense the recipient slot does not fit. One attestation.

## In the onomasticon

- [A-RI-SU](<https://linear-a.ai/names/A-RI-SU/index.md>): Title, Semitic

## References

- Reading: di Mino; DULAT; GlOS 1; Huffmon 1965; Gelb 1980; CAD E
- Krahmalkov: Krahmalkov, Charles R. (2000), A Phoenician-Punic Dictionary. Peeters (Leuven)
- AS 21: Gelb, Ignace J. (1980), Computer-aided Analysis of Amorite. Assyriological Studies 21,The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago
- APNM: Huffmon, Herbert B. (1965), Amorite Personal Names in the Mari Texts: A Structural and Lexical Study. The Johns Hopkins Press, Baltimore
- 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 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
- GlOS 1: Sanmartín, Joaquín (2019), A Glossary of Old Syrian, Volume 1: ʔ – ḳ. Languages of the Ancient Near East 8/1,Eisenbrauns (Pennsylvania State University Press), University Park

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