KO-MU

cella, inner sanctuary

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Reading
kummu
Confidence
Speculative
Root
*kumm- ‘cella, inner room of a temple’
Kind
Ritual
Language
Semitic
Rank
—

Compared forms

  • Akkadiankummukummu "cella, inner room of a temple"
  • Ugaritickbm, a (closed) cult installation (DULAT 423), filed with kummu under √k-m-m (GlOS 1, 308)

Attestations1 cited

  1. ZA Zb 34]PU₂-RE-JA KO-MU RU-DI[cella, inner sanctuary

Commentary

ZA Zb 34, a Zakros clay vessel: ]PU₂-RE-JẠ · KỌ-MỤ · RỤ-DI[ (GORILA IV 115). kummu ‘cella’: Akkadian kummu ‘cella, private room (of a temple)’ (CAD K 533); cf. DU-PU₂-RE dubur ‘sanctuary’. KO writes ku, as RO writes ru in SA-RO beside SA-RU šarru. Rival: √q-w-m ‘arise’, qūmū (imperative plural). One attestation.

On the 3D inscriptions

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

Linear A Lexicon