E

butter, ghee (ḥemʾat), a quantified commodity

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Reading
ḥemʾat
Confidence
Candidate
Root
*ḫimʔ-at- ‘cream, curd, butter’
Kind
Commodity
Language
Semitic
Rank
—

Compared forms

  • Hebrewḥemʾā (חֶמְאָה) Gen 18:8, Deut 32:14, Judg 5:25, Isa 7:15
  • Ugariticḥmʾt (KTU 1.4 III)
  • Akkadianḫimētu (palace ration lists, Ur III–NB)
  • Eblaiteḫi-ma-ad ḥimʾatḫi-ma-ad ḥimʾat ‘butter, curd’, a commodity in the administrative texts (ARET 13; GlOS 1, 272)

Attestations8 cited

  1. HT 12E 30fat, butter, ghee
  2. HT 23aE 17commodity, unread
  3. HT 23bE 7commodity
  4. HT 34E GRA 200
  5. HT 35E 5
  6. HT 91E 5unidentified quantified commodity; perhaps dairy fat
  7. KN 1aJA-KU-TI E 240
  8. KN 1bJA-DU-RA-TI E 105butter, ghee, clarified dairy fat

Commentary

E stands before a numeral in eight of nine occurrences, at HT and KN: HT 12 E 30, HT 23a E 17, HT 23b E 7, HT 35 E 5, HT 91 E 5 and E 3, KN 1a E 240, KN 1b E 105. ḥemʾat ‘butter, ghee’, E its first vowel: Heb. ḥemʾâ ‘sour milk, cream’ (HALOT 325), Ug. ḫmảt ‘butter, curd’ (DULAT 390), Akk. ḫimētu ‘ghee’ (CAD Ḫ 189). Weak point: no phonetic complement confirms it. ZA 4a has ]E[, broken on both sides.

On the 3D inscriptions

Not written on any of the 82 inscriptions modelled so far.

Linear A Lexicon