GRA+PA

parīsu, the half-gur grain measure (CAD P 186; DULAT 671–672 prś)

𐛭GRA+PA*5741 entries
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Reading
parīsu
Confidence
Candidate
Root
*pVris- ‘break, divide’ 1, ‘tear’ 2, ‘half-measure’ 3
Kind
Commodity
Language
Semitic
Rank
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Compared forms

  • Akkadianparīsuparīsu B ‘measure of capacity, half a gur’ (CAD P 186)
  • Ugariticprś/sprś/s ‘dry measure, ½ gur’ (DULAT 671)
  • Eblaiteba-ri-zu, a dry measure (DULAT 671)

Attestations14 cited

  1. HT 43MA-SI-DU PA-*342-I I GRA+PA 5
  2. HT 93aA-SE I GRA+PA 26 ³⁄₄grain composite (unread)
  3. HT 1023DPA₃-NI GRA+PA 33parīsu, the half-gur grain measure
  4. HT 120GRA+PA 62 𐝆𐝀parīsu, the half-gur grain measure
  5. HT 125bRE-TA₂ GRA+PA 20
  6. HT 128aMI-TA GRA+PA ¹⁄₂
  7. KH 27GRA+PA 4
  8. PE 1GRA+PA 26 ¹⁄₂grain, parīsu measure, 26½

Commentary

GRA with PA, the initial of parīsu, at four sites, often over large dry measures: Akkadian parīsu B ‘(a measure of capacity) one-half of a gur’ (CAD P 186), Ugaritic prś/prs, a dry measure of half a gur (DULAT 671–672), and Biblical Aramaic pĕrēs ‘half-portion’ (Dan 5:28); Ebla writes it ba-rí-zu, Mari and Alalakh VII pa-ri-si (GlOS 2, 135). HT 102 has PA₃-NI GRA+PA 33 and, after a lacuna, ]VIR GRA+PA 33, broken before VIR (GORILA I 169). HT 120 keeps GRA+PA apart from GRA+K+L and GRA+B. Fourteen documents.

On the 3D inscriptions1 inscription

HT 102Haghia Triada2×…GRA+PAGRA+PA…
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