# A-RU-RA (ʾArura)

> place name, heading the HT 11a list under KU-RO 10

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

- Reading: ʾArura
- Confidence: Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once.
- Root: ʾArura (Pre-Greek)
- Kind: Toponym
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: A (a) · RU (ru) · RA (ra)

## Compared forms

- Ugaritic: ảrr, the town ʾArruwa on the Siyannu border, URU ar-ru-wa (DULAT 102)
- Akkadian: {uru}a-ru-ra, a town in Assurnasirpal II's annals (RGTC 7/3, citing RIMA 2 101.1 i 47)

## Attestations

- [HT 11a](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT11a/index.md>): A-RU-RA 3 — ʾArura (place name)

## Commentary

HT 11a .1 A-RU-RA, whole: the mark after RA is the fracture edge of the broken corner, and RU is written over an erasure (GORILA I 23). It heads A-RU-RA ]3, KA-RO-NA 2, *322-RI 1, KU-RO 10. Ugaritic ảrr is the town ʾArruwa on the border with Siyannu, URU ar-ru-wa, whose soldiers head a list, spr ḫrd ảrr 'list of the soldiers of ʾArr' (KTU 4.683:1; DULAT 102). {uru}a-ru-ra spells the name sign for sign in Assurnasirpal II's annals (RGTC 7/3, citing RIMA 2 101.1 i 47). One witness.

## In the onomasticon

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

## References

- Reading: di Mino; DULAT; RGTC 7/3
- KTU: Dietrich, Manfried; Loretz, Oswald; Sanmartín, Joaquín (2013), Die keilalphabetischen Texte aus Ugarit, Ras Ibn Hani und anderen Orten / The Cuneiform Alphabetic Texts from Ugarit, Ras Ibn Hani and Other Places (KTU³). Ugarit-Verlag, Münster (Alter Orient und Altes Testament 360/1); ISBN 978-3-86835-014-2
- 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
- GORILA I: Godart, Louis; Olivier, Jean-Pierre (1976), Recueil des inscriptions en linéaire A, volume 1: Tablettes éditées avant 1970 (GORILA I). École française d'Athènes (Études crétoises XXI, 1); Librairie orientaliste Paul Geuthner, Paris

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