KI-RA

garden, orchard; rival qīru 'hot bitumen'

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Reading
kirû
Confidence
Candidate
Root
*kiry- ‘garden’
Kind
Administrative
Language
Semitic
Rank
—

Compared forms

  • Akkadiankirûkirû ‘garden, orchard, palm grove’ (CAD K 411); qīru ‘hot bitumen’ (CAD Q 270), the rival

Attestations2 cited

  1. HT 103KI-RA 5 ¹⁄₂garden, orchard; rival qīru 'hot bitumen'
  2. ZA 8KI-RAgarden, orchard (heading); alternatively liquid bitumen

Commentary

HT 103 KI-RA 5½, after DA-KU-SE-NE 1; ZA 8 opens KI-RA · A-TA-RE · NI ‘figs’ ½. kirû ‘garden, orchard’ (CAD K 411), base kiri- (Huehnergard 1997, 126), fits these horticultural entries. Rival: qīru ‘hot bitumen’ (CAD Q 270), spelled qi-ra in the Middle Assyrian Laws (KAV 1 v 76), with KI writing qi.

On the 3D inscriptions

Not written on any of the 82 inscriptions modelled so far.

Linear A Lexicon