MA-RU-ME
the wool (substrate commodity noun with Semitic mimation)
- Reading
- marūm
- Confidence
- Candidate
- Root
- substrate (non-Semitic wool word maru)
- Kind
- Commodity
- Language
- Aegean · Aegean substrate
- Rank
- —
Compared forms
- Greekμαλλόςmallosμαλλός (mallos) ‘flock of wool’ < Minoan /maru/ (Salgarella 2022; Nosch & Weilhartner 2026)
- Linear AA559 = MA+RU composite wool logogram (*146 Raison-Pope)
Attestations1 cited
- HT 24aMA+RU-ME 10the wool (quantities 10 and 6; a third entry on .4 breaks after ME)
Commentary
HT 24a, under the heading KU-PA₃-RI-JA · KI-MA+RU-[, writes the word with the wool ligature MA+RU (A 559) followed by ME (GORILA I 43): .2 MA+RU-ME 10, .3 MA+RU-MẸ 6, .4 PA-SA-RI-JA · MA+RU-MẸ[, broken after ME. The ligature is the wool logogram AB MA+RU (Nosch and Weilhartner 2026, 122–123, 131), the Minoan wool word maru that Greek keeps as μαλλός, Cretan μάλλυκες in Hesychius (Salgarella, Mix and Match, n. 8); -ME adds mimation, the spelling convention of JA-SA-SA-RA-ME yaššaram. The two complete entries carry quantities (10, 6) under two section headings, a wool distribution. Mimation doublet of syllabic MA-RU (HT 117a).
On the 3D inscriptions
Not written on any of the 82 inscriptions modelled so far.