# GRA+QE (qemāḥu)

> flour/meal as a grain subtype; processed grain product for rations and offerings

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

- Reading: qemāḥu
- Confidence: Candidate. A comparison worth testing; the evidence is thin or the word is rare.
- Root: [\*ḳamḥ-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/1613/index.md>) 'flour'
- Kind: Commodity
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: GRA+QE
- Rank: #90 of the top 100

## Compared forms

- Akkadian: *qēmu* — qēmu 'flour' (CAD Q 204)
- Hebrew: *qemaḥ* — qemaḥ 'flour' (HALOT 1107)
- Ugaritic: 𐎖𐎎𐎈 *qmḥ* — qmḥ 'flour' (DULAT 692)

## Attestations

- [HT 18](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT18/index.md>): PA-SE GRA+QE 20 — flour (logogram)
- [HT 28a](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT28a/index.md>): JA-\*21F GRA+QE 5
- [HT 99a](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT99a/index.md>): GRA+QE — grain subtype, possibly flour/meal
- [HT 101](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT101/index.md>): ZU-\*22F-DI GRA+QE 40 — grain subtype QE: 40

## Commentary

GRA with the adjunct QE on four Haghia Triada tablets, in dry-measure quantities beside OLE+KI, OLE+MI, VIN and plain GRA: HT 18 PA-SE GRA+QE 20, HT 28a JA-*21F · GRA+QE 5, HT 101 ZU-*22F-DI GRA+QE 40, HT 99a GRA+QE without a number. HT 36 heads JE-DI *307+*307-GRA+QE 44½ (20 erased from 64½), flour issued under the *307 dubur 'sanctuary' sign, with DU-ZU-WA 7½. QE writes the first syllable of Akk. qēmu(m) 'flour, meal' (CAD Q 204), Heb. קֶמַח qemaḥ 'flour' (Gen 18:6; Num 5:15), Ug. qmḥ (KTU 1.14 II 29). GRA+QE is a processed subtype, distinct from plain GRA, whole grain.

## Same root

- [OLE+QE+DI](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/OLE~2BQE~2BDI/index.md>)

## References

- Reading: di Mino
- KTU: Dietrich, Manfried; Loretz, Oswald; Sanmartín, Joaquín (2013), Die keilalphabetischen Texte aus Ugarit, Ras Ibn Hani und anderen Orten / The Cuneiform Alphabetic Texts from Ugarit, Ras Ibn Hani and Other Places (KTU³). Ugarit-Verlag, Münster (Alter Orient und Altes Testament 360/1); ISBN 978-3-86835-014-2
- 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
- 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 Q: Oriental Institute (Erica Reiner, ed.) (1982), The Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, vol. 13, Q. The Oriental Institute, Chicago; J. J. Augustin, Glückstadt

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