# KI-RU (kirru) > large vessel (vessel label) A Linear A word in the Linear A Lexicon. The reading is a proposal and carries its tier. - Reading: kirru - Confidence: Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once. - Root: [\*kirr-]() 'large vessel' - Kind: Vessel - Language: Semitic - Signs: KI (ki) · RU (ru) ## Compared forms - Akkadian: *kirru* — kirru A (DUG.KIR) 'a large vessel of earthenware, metal or stone', from Old Akkadian on (CAD K 408–410) - Hebrew: כִּיֹּר *kiyyôr* — kiyyôr (כִּיֹּר) 'pot, basin, laver' (1 Sam 2:14; Exod 30:18), rival ## Attestations - [MI Zb 1](): KI-RU ## Commentary MI Zb 1, incised on the base of a clay vase (Copenhagen NM 6960): KI-RU, two signs, nothing else (GORILA IV 91). Akk. kirru A, a large vessel of earthenware, metal or stone for water, beer, oil, wine, honey or perfume, from Old Akkadian on; perfume kirrātu among Tušratta's gifts (EA 22 iii 36) (CAD K 408–410). KI-RU writes kirru, the geminate unmarked. Rival: Heb. kiyyôr 'basin, laver' (Exod 30:18), Akk. kiūru 'metal cauldron', a Neo-Assyrian foreign word (CAD K 476), which needs an unwritten y; or an owner's mark. One attestation. ## References - Reading: di Mino - EA: Moran, William L. (1992), The Amarna Letters. Johns Hopkins University Press - 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 - GORILA IV: Godart, Louis; Olivier, Jean-Pierre (1982), Recueil des inscriptions en linéaire A, volume 4: Autres documents (GORILA IV). École française d'Athènes (Études crétoises XXI, 4); Librairie orientaliste Paul Geuthner, Paris --- Page: https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/KI-RU/ Licence: CC BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Cite as: di Mino, Tom. 2026. Linear A Lexicon. Plasma AI. https://linear-a.ai/. Data: kaphtor, commit 50525edd.