# OLE+QE+DI

> oil with flour and honey, a compound (A623)

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

- Reading: none proposed
- Confidence: Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once.
- Root: [\*ḳamḥ-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/1613/index.md>) 'flour' + [\*dVbš-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/2737/index.md>) 'honey'
- Kind: Commodity
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: OLE+QE+DI

## Attestations

- [HT 121](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT121/index.md>): KI-RI-TA₂ OLE+QE+DI 10 — compound oil category; perhaps honeyed or syrup-infused

## Commentary

HT 121 KI-RI-TA₂ OLE+QE+DI 10, heading the list, once. SigLA catalogs the sign as the single logogram A623; GORILA reads the ligature OLE+QE+DI. QE writes the qē- of qēmu 'flour', as in GRA+QE, and DI the di- of dišpu 'honey' (CAD D 161), as in OLE+DI: oil, flour and honey, as סֹלֶת וָשֶׁמֶן וּדְבַשׁ (Ezek 16:19). DI+QE on HT 101 joins flour and honey. Weak point: GORILA reads a ligature, SigLA the single sign A623.

## Same root

- [DI](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/DI/index.md>) (dibšu)
- [GRA+QE](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/GRA~2BQE/index.md>) (qemāḥu)
- [OLE+DI](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/OLE~2BDI/index.md>) (dišpu)

## References

- Reading: di Mino; GORILA I; SigLA; CAD D; CAD Q
- CAD D: Oriental Institute (A. Leo Oppenheim, ed.) (1959), The Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, vol. D. 
- CAD Q: Oriental Institute (Erica Reiner, ed.) (1982), The Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, vol. 13, Q. The Oriental Institute, Chicago; J. J. Augustin, Glückstadt
- GORILA I: Godart, Louis; Olivier, Jean-Pierre (1976), Recueil des inscriptions en linéaire A, volume 1: Tablettes éditées avant 1970 (GORILA I). École française d'Athènes (Études crétoises XXI, 1); Librairie orientaliste Paul Geuthner, Paris

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