# DU-RA-RE (durār)

> dove, swallow (offering bird)

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

- Reading: durār
- Confidence: Probable. Fits the word’s contexts and has a close external comparison, without an independent control.
- Root: [\*dVrr-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/2157/index.md>) 'kind of bird'
- Kind: Ritual
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: DU (du) · RA (ra) · RE (re)
- Rank: #66 of the top 100

## Compared forms

- Hebrew: דְּרוֹר *dərôr* — dərôr (דְּרוֹר) 'a kind of bird, swallow or dove', Ps 84:4, Prov 26:2 (HALOT 230)
- Aramaic: Deir ʿAlla drr 'swallow or dove' (DNWSI 262)
- Arabic: *durrat* — durrat 'parrot'

## Attestations

- [KN Zc 7](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/KNZc7/index.md>): A-KA-NU-ZA-TI DU-RA-RE A-ZU-RA — dove (offering bird)

## Commentary

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.

## References

- Reading: di Mino; HALOT; DNWSI; Evans, PoM I–II; Dever 2005; Gordon 1966
- Gordon, Cyrus H. (1966), Evidence for the Minoan Language. Ventnor Publishers,68
- EA: Moran, William L. (1992), The Amarna Letters. Johns Hopkins University Press
- Dever, William G. (2005), Did God Have a Wife? Archaeology and Folk Religion in Ancient Israel. William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company,344
- 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
- GlOS 2: Sanmartín, Joaquín (2024), A Glossary of Old Syrian, Volume 2: l – z. Languages of the Ancient Near East 8/2,Eisenbrauns (Pennsylvania State University Press), University Park
- DNWSI: Hoftijzer, J.; Jongeling, K.; with appendices by R. C. Steiner, A. Mosak Moshavi and B. Porten (1995), Dictionary of the North-West Semitic Inscriptions. E. J. Brill, Leiden/New York/Köln (Handbuch der Orientalistik I/21), 2 parts
- PoM I: Evans, Arthur J. (1921), The Palace of Minos: A Comparative Account of the Successive Stages of the Early Cretan Civilization as Illustrated by the Discoveries at Knossos. Volume I: The Neolithic and Early and Middle Minoan Ages. I,Macmillan and Co., Limited, London
- PoM II: Evans, Arthur J. (1928), The Palace of Minos: A Comparative Account of the Successive Stages of the Early Cretan Civilization as Illustrated by the Discoveries at Knossos. Volume II, Part I: Fresh Lights on Origins and External Relations: The Restoration in Town and Palace after Seismic Catastrophe towards Close of M. M. III, and the Beginnings of the New Era. II.1,Macmillan and Co., Limited, London

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