# ME-VIN (mesek)

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

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

- Reading: mesek
- Confidence: Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once.
- Root: [\*mVŝug-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/1022/index.md>) 'mix' 1, 'mixed drink' 2
- Kind: Commodity
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: ME (me) · VIN

## Compared forms

- Ugaritic: 𐎎𐎒𐎋 *msk* — msk 'mixture, mixed wine, mixed drink', paired with yn 'wine' (DULAT 575)
- Hebrew: *mesek* — mesek 'spiced drink', wəyayin ḥāmar mālēʾ mesek 'and the wine foams, full of mixture' (Ps 75:9; HALOT 605)

## Attestations

- [ZA 15a](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/ZA15a/index.md>): ME-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.

## References

- Reading: di Mino
- 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
- HALOT: Koehler, Ludwig; Baumgartner, Walter; Stamm, Johann Jakob; Richardson, M. E. J. (trans. and ed.) (1994), The Hebrew and Aramaic Lexicon of the Old Testament, vols. I–IV. E. J. Brill, Leiden · New York · Köln
- DULAT: del Olmo Lete, Gregorio; Sanmartín, Joaquín (2015), A Dictionary of the Ugaritic Language in the Alphabetic Tradition. Brill, Leiden/Boston (Handbook of Oriental Studies 1/112); Third Revised Edition, tr. and ed. Wilfred G.E. Watson; 2 parts
- GORILA III: Godart, Louis; Olivier, Jean-Pierre (1976), Recueil des inscriptions en linéaire A, volume 3: Tablettes, nodules et rondelles édités en 1975 et 1976 (GORILA III). École française d'Athènes (Études crétoises XXI, 3); Librairie orientaliste Paul Geuthner, Paris

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