- Reading
- mazza
- Confidence
- Speculative
- Root
- *mass- ‘forced labor, corvée levy, labor gang’
- Kind
- Personnel
- Language
- Semitic
- Rank
- —
Compared forms
- Akkadianmassumassu ‘corvée worker’: idi LÚ.MEŠ ma-zi ‘wages for the corvée workers’ (Wiseman Alalakh 246:6; CAD M/1 s.v.)
- Hebrewמַסmasmas מַס ‘corvée, labour gang’: wayyaʿal ham-melek šəlōmōh mas ‘King Solomon raised a levy’ (1 Kgs 5:27)
Attestations1 cited
- ZA 10bMA-ZA 5
Commentary
ZA 10b .2–3 MA-ZA 5, after U-*49 6 and before MA-KI-DE-TE 5 (GORILA III 171), in a list that counts A-MI-TA ʾamita ‘handmaid’ 3. MA-ZA writes ma-za on primary values: Alalakh’s z spelling, the geminate unwritten. A labour gang issued in a list, as Alalakh issues wages to the ma-zi (CAD M/1 327). Rivals: the Eblaite name ma-za (Pagan 1998); the Hurrian name mzy, ma-zi-i (DULAT 600). See ME-ZA and MI-ZA-SE.
On the 3D inscriptions
Not written on any of the 82 inscriptions modelled so far.