# OLE-\*307 (OLE-dubur)

> sanctuary oil

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

- Reading: OLE-dubur
- Confidence: Probable. Fits the word’s contexts and has a close external comparison, without an independent control.
- Root: [\*dVb(V)r-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/151/index.md>) 'back, hind part' 1, 'descendants' 2
- Kind: Commodity
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: OLE · \*307

## Compared forms

- Ugaritic: 𐎌𐎎𐎐 *šmn* — šmn 'oil' (see OLE)
- Akkadian: *šamnu* — šamnu 'oil, fat' (see OLE)
- Hebrew: דְּבִיר *dəvîr* — dəvîr (דְּבִיר) 'inner sanctuary' (1 Kgs 6:5)

## Attestations

- [PE Wy 5](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/PEWy5/index.md>): OLE \*307 1 ¹⁄₂ — sanctuary oil (compound, lexicon OLE-*307)

## Commentary

PE Wy 5, a stone object from Petras: OLE *307 1½, the oil logogram with *307, the DUBUR logogram 'sanctuary'. Oil for the sanctuary. One attestation. See DU-PU₂-RE.

## Same root

- [VIR+\*307](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/VIR~2B*307/index.md>) (VIR-dubur)
- [TI-NI-TA \*307](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/TI-NI-TA~20*307/index.md>) (Tinitu Dubur)
- [DU-PU₂-RE](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/DU-PU~E2~82~82-RE/index.md>) (dubur)
- [A-DU \*307+\*307](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/A-DU~20*307~2B*307/index.md>) (Addu dubur-dubur)
- [DU-\*314-RE](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/DU-*314-RE/index.md>) (dubur)

## References

- Reading: di Mino

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