MA-RI-RE-I

myrrh (the bitter resin)

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Reading: marīrēy
Confidence: Candidate
Root: *marār- ‘bitter’ 1, ‘myrrh’ 2
Kind: Commodity
Language: Semitic
Rank: —

Compared forms

Akk. murru, Ug. mr, Heb. mōr (Exod 30:23), Ar. murr

Attestations1 cited

HT 6bMA-RI-RE-I 3

Commentary

HT 6b: MA-RI-RE-I 3, after RA-TI-SE 1 and before DU-DA-MA 66, on an aromatic allocation tablet whose face also counts SA-MA ‘herb’ 35. marīrēy ‘the bitter stuff’, myrrh: a qaṭīl adjective of √m-r-r with the nisbe -ēy, as Heb. mōr ‘myrrh’ and mar ‘bitter’, with Mandaic and Ethiopic marīr (HALOT 630). Song 4:14 lists mōr beside qāneh and karkōm ‘saffron’. One attestation. See MI+JA+RU.

On the 3D inscriptions

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