# I-JA-PA-ME (yabame)

> 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

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

- Reading: yabame
- Confidence: Candidate. A comparison worth testing; the evidence is thin or the word is rare.
- Root: [\*wa-bām-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/13/index.md>) 'father-in-law' 1, 'brother-in-law, levir' 2
- Kind: Kinship
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: I (i) · JA (ja) · PA (pa) · ME (me)

## Compared forms

- Hebrew: יָבָם *yābām* — יָבָם (yābām) 'brother-in-law'; יְבָמָה (yᵊbāmāh) 'levirate widow'
- Ugaritic: 𐎊𐎁𐎎 *ybm* — ybm 'brother-in-law' (DULAT 937); ybmt 'widowed sister-in-law', Anat's epithet ybmt limm, the rival
- Tell Rimah: *ia-ba-mi-ša* — ia-ba-mi-ša 'her brother-in-law' (GlOS 2, 341)

## Attestations

- [KH 7a](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/KH7a/index.md>): I-JA-PA-ME TA-TA — brother-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.

## In the onomasticon

- [I-JA-PA-ME](<https://linear-a.ai/names/I-JA-PA-ME/index.md>): Title, Semitic

## References

- Reading: di Mino; GlOS 2; DULAT; Huehnergard 2012; Monti 2017
- Huehnergard, John (2012), An Introduction to Ugaritic. Hendrickson
- 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
- GORILA III: Godart, Louis; Olivier, Jean-Pierre (1976), Recueil des inscriptions en linéaire A, volume 3: Tablettes, nodules et rondelles édités en 1975 et 1976 (GORILA III). École française d'Athènes (Études crétoises XXI, 3); Librairie orientaliste Paul Geuthner, Paris
- Monti, Luciano Esteban (2017), A Systematic Approach to the Hurrian Pantheon: The Onomastic Evidence. PhD dissertation, Università degli Studi di Udine (XXVIII cycle)
- 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

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