# KA-JU (kallû)

> messenger, courier (title)

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

- Reading: kallû
- Confidence: Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once.
- Root: [\*ḳVlVl-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/979/index.md>) 'be small, be light' 1, 'swift; courier, (messenger-)service' 2
- Kind: Personnel
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: KA (ka) · JU (ju)

## Compared forms

- Akkadian: *kallû* — kallû 'messenger', LÚ ka-al-la at Ugarit (RS 16.188 r. 7; CAD K 83–84)
- Ugaritic: 𐎖𐎍 *ql* — ql (II) 'courier' (KTU 4.213:27; DULAT 689)

## Attestations

- [HT 88](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT88/index.md>): KA-JU 1 — the messenger, courier (Akkadian title)

## Commentary

HT 88 .4 KA-JU 1, both signs whole and undotted, the second of six one-unit entries after KI-RO, between KU-PA₃-PA₃ 1 and KU-PA₃-NU 1 (GORILA I 139). JU at its primary value lu: ka-lu, the geminate unwritten. A title in a roster of one-unit entries, as Ugarit issues decanted wine to the courier, yn ḥsp l ql (KTU 4.213:27; DULAT 689). Rivals: Ugaritic ql 'swift (courier)', with KA for q; kalû 'lamentation priest' (CAD K 91).

## In the onomasticon

- [KA-JU](<https://linear-a.ai/names/KA-JU/index.md>): Title, Semitic

## References

- Reading: di Mino; CAD K; DULAT
- 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
- CAD K: Oriental Institute (A. Leo Oppenheim and Erica Reiner, eds.) (1971), The Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, vol. 8, K. The Oriental Institute, Chicago; J. J. Augustin, Glückstadt
- 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 I: Godart, Louis; Olivier, Jean-Pierre (1976), Recueil des inscriptions en linéaire A, volume 1: Tablettes éditées avant 1970 (GORILA I). École française d'Athènes (Études crétoises XXI, 1); Librairie orientaliste Paul Geuthner, Paris

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