# A-RO-TE (Ḫaluti)

> Ḫaluti (woman's name, seal owner); rival ʾālôt 'oaths, curses'

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

- Reading: Ḫaluti
- Confidence: Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once.
- Kind: Personal name
- Language: Hurrian
- Signs: A (a) · RO (ro) · TE (te)

## Compared forms

- Nuzi: Ha-lu-ti, var. Ha-lu-u-ti, a woman's name (NPN 51)
- Hittite: Ḫaluti (KBo 40.365 1; Hittite Personal Names 0.1)
- Hebrew: ʾālāh, pl. ʾālôt 'oaths, curses' (Deut 29:20; 30:7; 2 Chr 34:24), the rival

## Attestations

- [CR Zg 4](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/CRZg4/index.md>): A-RO-TE — Ḫaluti (woman's name, the seal's owner); rival ʾālôt 'oaths, curses'

## Commentary

CR Zg 4, a steatite reel seal (CMS XII 96), face b A-RO-TE under a lozenge-net relief, face a I-DA-DA, read from the impression, the signs whole (Younger, Linear A Texts, citing Raison–Pope 1994, 242–243). A seal names its owner: Ḫaluti, the Nuzi woman's name Ḫa-lu-ti (NPN 51), on the Hurrian element ḫal(u)- (NPN 212–213), with A for ḫa as in A-RU Ḫaru. Cf. Linear B a-ro-te (PY La 622), obscure (Killen 2024, 935). Rival: ʾālôt 'oaths, curses' on primary values, the plural of ʾālāh (Deut 29:20; 2 Chr 34:24), whose ō needs the Canaanite shift. Nuzi spelling does not keep e and i apart (Wegner 2000, 38), so TE matches -ti; cf. Tigunāni Ḫalut, ḫal=o=t(ta) 'Carry me away!' (Monti 2017, 428). Weak point: A writes ḫa. One witness.

## In the onomasticon

- [A-RO-TE](<https://linear-a.ai/names/A-RO-TE/index.md>): Personal name, Hurrian

## References

- Reading: di Mino; NPN; Killen 2024; Wegner 2000; Monti 2017
- Raison, Jacques; Pope, Maurice (1994), Corpus transnuméré du linéaire A. Peeters, Louvain-la-Neuve (Bibliothèque des Cahiers de l'Institut de Linguistique de Louvain 74)
- Killen, John (ed.) (2024), The New Documents in Mycenaean Greek. Cambridge University Press,1338
- NPN: Gelb, Ignace J.; Purves, Pierre M.; MacRae, Allan A. (1943), Nuzi Personal Names. Oriental Institute Publications 57, University of Chicago
- Wegner, Ilse (2000), Einführung in die hurritische Sprache. Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden
- Monti, Luciano Esteban (2017), A Systematic Approach to the Hurrian Pantheon: The Onomastic Evidence. PhD dissertation, Università degli Studi di Udine (XXVIII cycle)

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