DU-RA-RE

KN Zc 7 · A-KA-NU-ZA-TI · DU-RA-RE · A-ZU-RA ·, between ‘this bowl’ and the Goddess. durār ‘dove, swallow’: Hebrew dərôr, the bird nesting at the altars (Ps 84:4) and in flight (Prov 26:2; HALOT 230), Deir ʿAlla drr (DNWSI 262), Arabic durrat ‘parrot’, DU writing the u. The cups lay above the crypt of the dove vase (Evans, PoM I 146, 587); the Knossian Goddess bears a dove and her votary offers one (PoM II 337, 339); doves attend Asherah and Tanit (Dever 2005, 232). Gordon read ḏū-layli ‘that of the Night’, the night-demon (1966 §§146, 156); night is contracted lēl in the period (EA 243:13; GlOS 2, 20), which Linear A writes with E. Weak point: drr ‘bird’ has no Bronze Age witness. See MI-RU-TA-RA-RE.