# DU-\*314-RE (dubur)

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

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

- Reading: dubur
- Confidence: Candidate. A comparison worth testing; the evidence is thin or the word is rare.
- Root: [\*dVb(V)r-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/151/index.md>) 'back, hind part' 1, 'descendants' 2
- Kind: Ritual
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: DU (du) · \*314 · RE (re)
- Rank: #100 of the top 100

## Compared forms

- Hebrew: *dəbîr* — dəbîr 'back room, holy of holies' (HALOT 208); wəladdəbîr, 1 Kgs 6:5
- Arabic: *dub(u)r* — dub(u)r 'back, hind part', the base HALOT gives for dəbîr (HALOT 208)

## Attestations

- [KO Za 1](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/KOZa1/index.md>): TU-RU-SA DU-\*314-RE I-DA-A — sanctuary, 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.

## Same root

- [VIR+\*307](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/VIR~2B*307/index.md>) (VIR-dubur)
- [TI-NI-TA \*307](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/TI-NI-TA~20*307/index.md>) (Tinitu Dubur)
- [DU-PU₂-RE](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/DU-PU~E2~82~82-RE/index.md>) (dubur)
- [A-DU \*307+\*307](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/A-DU~20*307~2B*307/index.md>) (Addu dubur-dubur)
- [OLE-\*307](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/OLE-*307/index.md>) (OLE-dubur)

## References

- Reading: Facchetti 1999, 132; Davis 2013, 44 n. 46; Thomas 2020, 8; di Mino
- Facchetti, Giulio M. (1999), Non-onomastic elements in Linear A. Kadmos,38,121–136
- Thomas, Rose (2020), Some Reflections on Morphology in the Language of the Linear A Libation Formula. Kadmos,59,1–23
- 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
- Davis, Brent (2013), Syntax in Linear A: The Word-Order of the ‘Libation Formula’. Kadmos,52,35–52
- GORILA IV: Godart, Louis; Olivier, Jean-Pierre (1982), Recueil des inscriptions en linéaire A, volume 4: Autres documents (GORILA IV). École française d'Athènes (Études crétoises XXI, 4); Librairie orientaliste Paul Geuthner, Paris

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