# DA-ME (damu)

> blood (ritual allocation category); rival dam 'kinfolk'

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

- Reading: damu
- Confidence: Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once.
- Root: [\*dam-, \*ʾa-dam-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/156/index.md>) 'blood'
- Kind: Administrative
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: DA (da) · ME (me)

## Compared forms

- Ugaritic: 𐎄𐎎 *dm* — dm 'blood' (Huehnergard 2012, glossary)
- Hebrew: *dām* — dām 'blood'
- Akkadian: *damu* — damu 'blood' (CAD D 75)

## Attestations

- [HT 86a](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT86a/index.md>): DA-ME GRA+B 20 — blood (ritual allocation category)
- [HT 95a](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT95a/index.md>): DA-ME 10 — blood (ritual allocation category)
- [HT 95b](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT95b/index.md>): DA-ME 10 — blood (ritual allocation category)
- [HT 120](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT120/index.md>): DA-ME GRA+K+L 74 — blood (ritual allocation category)

## Commentary

HT 95a/b and HT 86a: DA-ME with MI-NU-TE, always together, in the set SA-RU, KU-NI-SU, DI-DE-RU, QE-RA₂-U (QA-RA₂-WA on HT 86a). HT 120: DA-ME GRA+K+L 74, GRA+PA 62 J A, beside DA-U-*49, KI-RE-TA-NA and PA-I-TO. Ug. dm (DULAT 270), Heb. dām (HALOT 224), Akk. damu 'blood' (CAD D 75), which DA-ME spells: a ritual category drawing grain. Rival: Old Syrian dam 'kinfolk' (GlOS 1, 147), a kin group drawing grain. Four attestations, all Haghia Triada. See *118-MI.

## References

- Reading: di Mino; DULAT; HALOT; CAD D; GlOS 1
- Huehnergard, John (2012), An Introduction to Ugaritic. Hendrickson
- CAD D: Oriental Institute (A. Leo Oppenheim, ed.) (1959), The Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, vol. D. 
- 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
- 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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