MI-RU-TA-RA-RE

Free-running Bull, a bull that roams free (personal name); rival Murr-darār 'Flowing Myrrh'

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Reading: Mīru-darār
Confidence: Speculative
Root: *mir(Vʾ)- ‘bull’ + *dVr- ‘run freely’ 1, ‘run tirelessly’ 2, ‘drive…’
Kind: Personal name
Language: Semitic
Rank: —

Compared forms

Akkadianmīrumīru A ‘young bull’, mīrtu ‘cow’ (CAD M/2 109); darāru A ‘become free, move about freely, run off’ (CAD D 109); andurārum ‘freedom, manumission’ (Huehnergard 1997, glossary)
Hebrewמְרִיאmərîʾmərîʾ (מְרִיא) ‘fatted steer’ (HALOT 635); dərôr (דְּרוֹר) ‘freedom’ (HALOT 230); mor-dərôr (מׇר־דְּרוֹר) ‘flowing myrrh’ (Exod 30:23)

Attestations1 cited

HT 117a 3DMI-RU-TA-RA-RE 1personal name, 'Free-running Bull' (a bull that roams free); rival Murr-darār 'Flowing Myrrh'

Commentary

HT 117a MI-RU-TA-RA-RE 1, intact, in the roster under MA-KA-RI-TE · KI-RO, between U-DI-MI and TE-JA-RE Teyar, with MA-RU Maruʾ ‘Fattened’ on the same list. MI-RU mīru ‘young bull’ (CAD M/2 109), as MU-RU mūru; TA-RA-RE darār, Akkadian darāru ‘become free, move about freely, run off’ (CAD D 109), as DU-RA-RE durar, TA for d as in TA-DI dādī. Rival: Murr-darār ‘Flowing Myrrh’, Hebrew mor-dərôr (Exod 30:23; #K0153), MI-RU as MI+JA+RU murru.

On the 3D inscriptions1 inscription

HT 117a–bHaghia Triada…mi-ru-ta-ra-re……