# MA-RI (Mari)

> Mari (place name; Linear B ma-ri); rival Mari on the Euphrates

A Linear A word in the Linear A Lexicon. The reading is a proposal and carries its tier.

- Reading: Mari
- Confidence: Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once.
- Kind: Toponym
- Language: Aegean, Aegean substrate
- Signs: MA (ma) · RI (ri)

## Compared forms

- Linear B: ma-ri, a place in the Knossos sheep tablets, KN Dl 947.B (si-da-jo / ma-ri), 948.B (pa-za-ti / ma-ri); ethnic ma-ri-jo, KN X 1581 (DMic I 425–426)

## Attestations

- [HT 128a](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT128a/index.md>): MA-RI

## Commentary

HT 128a .4 MA-RI, both signs whole, after GRA+KU 4 at the end of the face; face b opens with GRA+KU 6 and no word before it, MA-RI's entry carried over (GORILA I 221). A barley list by recipient. Rival: Mari on the Euphrates, whose eighteenth-century archive records Caphtorian weapons, textiles and shoes (Cline 2014, 19); Ugarit still names ʿṯtrt Mrh, ʿAṯtart of Mari (KTU 1.100:78; RGTC 12/2, 186). One attestation.

## In the onomasticon

- [MA-RI](<https://linear-a.ai/names/MA-RI/index.md>): Place, Aegean substrate

## References

- Reading: di Mino; DMic I; Cline 2014; RGTC 12/2
- KTU: Dietrich, Manfried; Loretz, Oswald; Sanmartín, Joaquín (2013), Die keilalphabetischen Texte aus Ugarit, Ras Ibn Hani und anderen Orten / The Cuneiform Alphabetic Texts from Ugarit, Ras Ibn Hani and Other Places (KTU³). Ugarit-Verlag, Münster (Alter Orient und Altes Testament 360/1); ISBN 978-3-86835-014-2
- DMic I: Aura Jorro, Francisco, Diccionario Micénico, vol. I (CSIC 1985). 
- Cline, Eric H. (2014), 1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed. Turning Points in Ancient History,Princeton University Press
- GORILA I: Godart, Louis; Olivier, Jean-Pierre (1976), Recueil des inscriptions en linéaire A, volume 1: Tablettes éditées avant 1970 (GORILA I). École française d'Athènes (Études crétoises XXI, 1); Librairie orientaliste Paul Geuthner, Paris
- RGTC 12/2: Belmonte Marín, Juan Antonio (2001), Die Orts- und Gewässernamen der Texte aus Syrien im 2. Jt. v. Chr.. Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag, Wiesbaden (Répertoire Géographique des Textes Cunéiformes 12/2; Beihefte zum Tübinger Atlas des Vorderen Orients B 7/12/2)

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