JI-NU-MA-RE

wine-lords, wine-stewards (personnel category)

𐘛*28BAB28B1 entries𐘯NUAB5527 entries𐙁MAAB8056 entries𐘙REAB2751 entries
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Reading
yinumare
Confidence
Candidate
Root
*wayn- ‘wine’, ‘grapes’
Kind
Personnel
Language
Semitic
Rank
—

Compared forms

  • Hebrewיַיִןyayinyayin (יַיִן) ‘wine’ + mārē plural of ‘lord’
  • Ugaritic𐎊𐎐ynyn ‘wine’
  • Akkadianmārumāru ‘son/lord’, plural mārē/mārū

Attestations3 cited

  1. ZA 4a*28B-NU-MA-RE 13wine-stewards (personnel category), 13 units
  2. ZA 5b3D*28B-NU-MA-RE 20wine-stewards (compound: wine + lords)
  3. ZA 15a*28B-NU-MA-RE 6

Commentary

ZA 4a *28B-NU-MA-RE 13, ZA 5b *28B-NU-MA-RE 20, ZA 15a *28B-NU-MA-RE 6, each followed by SI-PI-KI ‘pourings’ on the Zakros wine tablets, among personal names: a personnel category, the stewards who administer the palace wine. A compound of yīnu ‘wine’, √y-y-n (Heb. yayin, HALOT 409; Ug. yn, DULAT 954), and mārē ‘lords, sons’, √m-r-y, cf. Aramaic mrʾ ‘lord, master’ (DNWSI 682); *28B writes ji, a proposed value, and WE reads the word as well, wēnu-mārē, wēnu < *wayn. Rival: a personal name, from its recurring slot beside SI-PI-KI (Negri, SMEA 43/1, 2001, 82). Three attestations. See VIN.

On the 3D inscriptions1 inscription

ZA 5a–bZakros*28B-nu-ma-re
Linear A Lexicon