NI-PI

fruit (commodity)

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Reading: nīb
Confidence: Speculative
Root: *nīb- ‘fruit’ 1, ‘to sprout, prosper’ 2
Kind: Commodity
Language: Semitic
Rank: —

Compared forms

Hebrewnîḇ, ketiv nôḇ ‘fruit’: nîḇ śᵉpātayim ‘fruit of the lips’, Is 57:19 (HALOT 696)
Jewish Aramaicnôḇāʾnôḇāʾ ‘fruit’ (HALOT 696)

Attestations1 cited

KN Wc 26NI-PIfruit, the thing received

Commentary

KN Wc 26, a roundel (CMS X 120): RU-JA Ruya on face a, NI-PI on face b, intact and undotted (GORILA II 85); Younger enters face b in the logogram column. The thing received against the receiver. nīb ‘fruit’: Heb. nîb ‘fruit’ (Isa 57:19; HALOT 696); NI writes nī, PI the b. Rival: NI, the fig sign, with PI written beside it. Weak point: the Knossos findspot is queried (Søyen Collection, formerly Erlenmeyer; Ferrara, Montecchi and Valério 2022, 103–104). One attestation.

On the 3D inscriptions

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