I-JA-PA-ME

brother-in-law (kin title); I-JA-PA-ME · TA-TA 'the brother-in-law of Tatta'; rival ybmt 'sister-in-law', Anat's epithet

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Reading
yabame
Confidence
Candidate
Root
*wa-bām- ‘father-in-law’ 1, ‘brother-in-law, levir’ 2
Kind
Kinship
Language
Semitic
Rank
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Compared forms

  • Hebrewיָבָםyābāmיָבָם (yābām) ‘brother-in-law’; יְבָמָה (yᵊbāmāh) ‘levirate widow’
  • Ugaritic𐎊𐎁𐎎ybmybm ‘brother-in-law’ (DULAT 937); ybmt ‘widowed sister-in-law’, Anat’s epithet ybmt limm, the rival
  • Tell Rimahia-ba-mi-šaia-ba-mi-ša ‘her brother-in-law’ (GlOS 2, 341)

Attestations1 cited

  1. KH 7aI-JA-PA-ME TA-TAbrother-in-law (of Tatta)

Commentary

KH 7a: sections under E-NA-SI ‘men’, I-JA-PA-ME · TA-TA and SE-*305 ‘provisions’; the second holds QA-TI-KI, *313b men 4, cyperus ⅓ (GORILA III 29). yabam ‘brother-in-law’, as Tell Rimah ia-ba-mi-ša and Ugaritic ybm (GlOS 2, 341; DULAT 937); before TA-TA, yabam Tatta ‘the brother-in-law of Tatta’, a woman’s name at Mari and Tuttul (Monti 2017, 302, 335): her husband’s brother, as ia-ba-mi-ša ‘her brother-in-law’. Rival: ybmt ‘widowed sister-in-law’, Anat’s epithet ybmt limm (DULAT 937; Huehnergard 2012, 87). One witness.

On the 3D inscriptions1 inscription

KN Za 10Knossos…i-jaMatched on its surviving signs
Linear A Lexicon