KE-KI-RU

personal name, 'Disk, Round loaf'

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Reading
Kikkaru
Confidence
Speculative
Root
*kakkar-/*kikkar- ‘round loaf, disk’
Kind
Personal name
Language
Semitic
Rank
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Compared forms

  • AmoriteKAKKAR-I (KA-KA-RI), personal name (Gelb 1980, AS 21, no. 3957)
  • Akkadiankakkarukakkaru ‘metal disk (a talent); round loaf’ (CAD K 49)
  • Hebrewkikkārkikkār ‘round loaf; talent’ (Exod 29:23)

Attestations1 cited

  1. HT 94b3DKE-KI-RU 1personal name, 'Disk, Round loaf'; rival a title

Commentary

HT 94b under KI-RO: TU-MA 1, PA-TA-NE 1, DE-DI 1, KE-KI-RU 1, SA-RU 1, KU-RO 5, one unit each with no commodity sign: a name. *kikkar- ‘disk, round loaf’ (PS *kakkar-/*kikkar-) as a name, with the i of Heb. kikkār, KE writing ki as RE writes ri in KI-RE-TA₂; Akk. kakkaru (CAD K 49), Amorite KAKKAR-I (Gelb AS 21 no. 3957). Weak point: KI for the a of kikkar-. Rival: a title. KI-KI-RA-JA (HT 85b) is on the same root. One attestation. See QA-KU-RE and QE-KU-RE.

On the 3D inscriptions1 inscription

HT 94bHaghia Triada…ke-ki-ru…
Linear A Lexicon