# I-KU-JU-TI (ʾukulti)

> food, provisions (section heading)

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

- Reading: ʾukulti
- Confidence: Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once.
- Root: [\*ʾVkul-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/819/index.md>) 'eat'
- Kind: Commodity
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: I (i) · KU (ku) · JU (ju) · TI (ti)

## Compared forms

- Akkadian: *ukultu* — ukultu 'food, fodder'
- Ugaritic: *ảkl* — ảkl 'food, grain, fodder' (GlOS 1, 18)
- Hebrew: אָכְלָה *ʾoklâ* — ʾoklâ (אָכְלָה) 'food' (Gen 1:29–30)
- Geʿez: *ʾəkl* — ʾəkl 'frumentum, hordeum' (Dillmann 1865, no. 5774)
- Sabaic: *ʾkl* — ʾkl 'grain crops' (Beeston 1982, 4–5)

## Attestations

- [ZA 6b](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/ZA6b/index.md>): I-KU-JU-TI-\*28B GRA+PA 50 ¹⁄₄

## Commentary

ZA 6b: heads the first section, over GRA+PA 50¼, VIN+RA 40, VIN+KA 10; *312-TA₂ heads the second. ʾukulti 'food, provisions': Akk. ukultu 'food, fodder' (CAD U/W 62). KU-JU writes kul (JU = lu, as in KU-RE-JU), and initial I- the ʾu. The line reads I-KU-JU-TI-*28B: the word spans a fragment join, with a gap at the crack in the diplomatic copy (GORILA III 158–159), and *28B stands as a separate sign before GRA+PA. Cf. AB 28 (I), a different sign, as a single or transaction sign before GRA+PA (Salgarella 2020, 73 n. 55; Steele 2024, 58). One attestation.

## References

- Reading: di Mino; CAD U/W; GlOS 1; Salgarella 2020; Steele 2024
- Beeston, A.F.L., M.A. Ghul, W.W. Müller & J. Ryckmans (1982), Sabaic Dictionary (English-French-Arabic). Peeters / Librairie du Liban
- Dillmann, August (1865), Lexicon Linguae Aethiopicae. GitHub (DillmannData)
- Salgarella, Ester (2020), Aegean Linear Script(s): Rethinking the Relationship Between Linear A and Linear B. Cambridge University Press
- Steele, Philippa M. (2024), Exploring Writing Systems and Practices in the Bronze Age Aegean. Oxbow Books. ISBN 978-1-78925-901-8 (hb), 978-1-78925-902-5 (digital). Online work CC BY 3.0
- CAD U/W: Oriental Institute (Martha T. Roth, ed.) (2010), The Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, vol. 20, U and W. The Oriental Institute, Chicago
- 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
- GlOS 1: Sanmartín, Joaquín (2019), A Glossary of Old Syrian, Volume 1: ʔ – ḳ. Languages of the Ancient Near East 8/1,Eisenbrauns (Pennsylvania State University Press), University Park

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