NU-RO

light, fire (divine epithet or votive label on clay vessels)

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Reading
nūr-
Confidence
Candidate
Root
*nūr- ‘fire’ 1, ‘to shine, sparkle’ 2, ‘light’ 3…
Kind
Divine
Language
Semitic
Rank
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Compared forms

  • Akkadiannūrunūru "light, fire" (CAD N/II)
  • Hebrewנוּרnūrנוּר (nūr) "fire"; נֵר (nēr) "lamp"
  • Ugaritic𐎐𐎗nrnr "light" (DULAT 633)
  • Arabicnūrnūr "light"
  • Eblaitenu-ru₁₂-umnu-ru₁₂-um ‘light’ (GlOS 2, 114)

Attestations2 cited

  1. IN Zb 1NU-RO
  2. KAM Zb 1NU-RO

Commentary

IN Zb 1 and KAM Zb 1, the sole word on two clay vessels, from Kamilari and an unknown site, with no sentence context. nūr- ‘light, fire’, √n-w-r: Ug. nwr /nāra/, /yanūr-/ ‘to be bright, shine’ (Huehnergard 2012, 50), BH nēr ‘lamp’. On a votive vessel nūru ‘Light’ addresses a god, as in the epithets of Shamash. Rival: a name on nūr, as Mari nu-ur-me-er, Emar nu-ri-ᵈda-gan, Ugarit nu-ri-ia-nu (GlOS 2, 114). Two attestations. See *301-U-RA.

On the 3D inscriptions

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

Linear A Lexicon