# KO-MU (kummu) > cella, inner sanctuary A Linear A word in the Linear A Lexicon. The reading is a proposal and carries its tier. - Reading: kummu - Confidence: Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once. - Root: [\*kumm-]() 'cella, inner room of a temple' - Kind: Ritual - Language: Semitic - Signs: KO (ko) · MU (mu) ## Compared forms - Akkadian: *kummu* — kummu "cella, inner room of a temple" - Ugaritic: kbm, a (closed) cult installation (DULAT 423), filed with kummu under √k-m-m (GlOS 1, 308) ## Attestations - [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. ## References - Reading: di Mino; CAD K; GlOS 1 - 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 - DULAT: del Olmo Lete, Gregorio; Sanmartín, Joaquín (2015), A Dictionary of the Ugaritic Language in the Alphabetic Tradition. Brill, Leiden/Boston (Handbook of Oriental Studies 1/112); Third Revised Edition, tr. and ed. Wilfred G.E. Watson; 2 parts - 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 - GlOS 1: Sanmartín, Joaquín (2019), A Glossary of Old Syrian, Volume 1: ʔ – ḳ. Languages of the Ancient Near East 8/1,Eisenbrauns (Pennsylvania State University Press), University Park --- Page: https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/KO-MU/ 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 add28e94.