DU-*314-RE

sanctuary, inner sanctum; proposed variant spelling of DU-PU₂-RE

𐘬DUAB5131 entries 𐙦*314*3144 entries 𐘙REAB2751 entries

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Reading: dubur
Confidence: Candidate
Root: *dVb(V)r- ‘back, hind part’ 1, ‘descendants’ 2
Kind: Ritual
Language: Semitic
Rank: #100 of the top 100

Compared forms

Hebrewdəbîrdəbîr ‘back room, holy of holies’ (HALOT 208); wəladdəbîr, 1 Kgs 6:5
Arabicdub(u)rdub(u)r ‘back, hind part’, the base HALOT gives for dəbîr (HALOT 208)

Attestations1 cited

KO Za 1 3DTU-RU-SA DU-*314-RE I-DA-Asanctuary, inner sanctum

Commentary

KO Za 1 .2 TU-RU-SA · DU-*314-RE · I-DA-A ·, after A-TA-I-*301-WA-JA; GORILA IV 20 dots DU and RE, and *314 is whole. Facchetti (1999, 132) and Davis (2013, 44 n. 46) take *314 here as an orthographic variant of PU₂, and Thomas (2020, 8) admits the comparison: DU-*314-RE writes DU-PU₂-RE, the word of PK Za 15 and HT Zb 160 in the same ritual corpus, an equation for this word alone. dubur ‘sanctuary, inner sanctum’, Heb. dəbîr ‘rear room, holy of holies’ (1 Kgs 6:5), on Arb. dub(u)r ‘rump’ (HALOT 208): dubur ʾIda ‘the sanctuary of Ida’. Rival: *314 = RI, √d-r-r, which gives no parse in context. One attestation. See DU-PU₂-RE.

On the 3D inscriptions1 inscription

KO Za 1Kophinasdu-*314-re