KI+MU

priest(s) (personnel category, ligatured onset abbreviation)

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Reading: kumru
Confidence: Candidate
Root: *kumir- ‘priest’
Kind: Personnel
Language: Semitic
Rank: —

Compared forms

Eblaitegúm-ri-imgúm-ri-im ‘priest’ (GlOS 1, 309)
Mariku-mu-ur, ku-um-rum ‘priest’ (GlOS 1, 309)
Emarkà-ma-ru, ku-ma-ri ‘priests’ (Pentiuc 2001, 95; GlOS 1, 309)
Hebrewkōmer, pl. kəmārîm ‘priests’ (2 Kgs 23:5)

Attestations2 cited

HT 127bKI+MU 15priests(?), 15; erased entry 14
HT 26bKI+MU 12

Commentary

HT 127b KI+MU 15, after VIR+*313c 24 and before *301 11, with an erased KI+MU 14, KU-RO 292, and HT 26b KI+MU 12, after KA-U-ZU-NI 4: a category label on personnel registers. A two-sign onset abbreviation of kumru ‘priest’ (√k-m-r): Akk. kumru ‘a priest’ (CAD K 534), Old Syrian kamr, kumr ‘a priest’ (GlOS 1, 309), Emar ka-ma-ri ‘priests’ (Pentiuc 2001, 95), Heb. kōmer (HALOT 482). Weak point: the one fuller spelling, HT 96a ]KU-MA-RO, is broken before KU. Two attestations.

On the 3D inscriptions

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