# GRA+PA (parīsu) > parīsu, the half-gur grain measure (CAD P 186; DULAT 671–672 prś) A Linear A word in the Linear A Lexicon. The reading is a proposal and carries its tier. - Reading: parīsu - Confidence: Candidate. A comparison worth testing; the evidence is thin or the word is rare. - Root: [\*pVris-]() 'break, divide' 1, 'tear' 2, 'half-measure' 3 - Kind: Commodity - Language: Semitic - Signs: GRA+PA ## Compared forms - Akkadian: *parīsu* — parīsu B 'measure of capacity, half a gur' (CAD P 186) - Ugaritic: *prś/s* — prś/s 'dry measure, ½ gur' (DULAT 671) - Eblaite: ba-ri-zu, a dry measure (DULAT 671) ## Attestations - [HT 43](): MA-SI-DU PA-\*342-I I GRA+PA 5 - [HT 93a](): A-SE I GRA+PA 26 ³⁄₄ — grain composite (unread) - [HT 102](): PA₃-NI GRA+PA 33 — parīsu, the half-gur grain measure - [HT 120](): GRA+PA 62 𐝆𐝀 — parīsu, the half-gur grain measure - [HT 125b](): RE-TA₂ GRA+PA 20 - [HT 128a](): MI-TA GRA+PA ¹⁄₂ - [KH 27](): GRA+PA 4 - [PE 1](): GRA+PA 26 ¹⁄₂ — grain, parīsu measure, 26½ - [ZA 6a](): PU₂-RA₂ GRA+PA — grain, the half-gur measure - [ZA 6b](): I-KU-JU-TI-\*28B GRA+PA 50 ¹⁄₄ - [ZA 11a](): GRA+PA - [ZA 11b](): SA-\*301-RI GRA+PA 1 - [ZA 18a](): KU-\*321 GRA+PA 2 double mina - [ZA 28](): GRA+PA 1 ## 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. ## References - Reading: di Mino; GlOS 2 - DULAT: del Olmo Lete, Gregorio; Sanmartín, Joaquín (2015), A Dictionary of the Ugaritic Language in the Alphabetic Tradition. Brill, Leiden/Boston (Handbook of Oriental Studies 1/112); Third Revised Edition, tr. and ed. Wilfred G.E. Watson; 2 parts - CAD P: Oriental Institute (Martha T. Roth, ed.) (2005), The Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, vol. 12, P. The Oriental Institute, Chicago - GORILA I: Godart, Louis; Olivier, Jean-Pierre (1976), Recueil des inscriptions en linéaire A, volume 1: Tablettes éditées avant 1970 (GORILA I). École française d'Athènes (Études crétoises XXI, 1); Librairie orientaliste Paul Geuthner, Paris - 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 --- Page: https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/GRA~2BPA/ Licence: CC BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Cite as: di Mino, Tom. 2026. Linear A Lexicon. Plasma AI. https://linear-a.ai/. Data: kaphtor, commit 50525edd.