ME-VIN

mixed wine (wine-section heading); rival 'must'

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Reading: mesek
Confidence: Speculative
Root: *mVŝug- ‘mix’ 1, ‘mixed drink’ 2
Kind: Commodity
Language: Semitic
Rank: —

Compared forms

Ugaritic𐎎𐎒𐎋mskmsk ‘mixture, mixed wine, mixed drink’, paired with yn ‘wine’ (DULAT 575)
Hebrewmesekmesek ‘spiced drink’, wəyayin ḥāmar mālēʾ mesek ‘and the wine foams, full of mixture’ (Ps 75:9; HALOT 605)

Attestations1 cited

ZA 15aME-VIN

Commentary

ZA 15a .3 ME VIN, two separate signs after I-TI-NI-SA 10, no numeral: it heads the second section of the wine list, as SA VIN heads the first (GORILA III 182–183). ME as the onset of Ugaritic msk ‘mixture, mixed wine’ (DULAT 575; KTU 1.19 IV 61, // yn), Hebrew mesek (HALOT 605; Ps 75:9). VIN takes single-sign qualifiers elsewhere (VIN+RA, VIN+KA, VIN+TE, VIN+WA). Rival: mrṯ ‘must’ (DULAT 571–572). One witness.

On the 3D inscriptions

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