# OLE+RI (riqqu)

> aromatic/fragrant olive oil preparation

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

- Reading: riqqu
- Confidence: Candidate. A comparison worth testing; the evidence is thin or the word is rare.
- Root: [\*rVḳVḥ-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/S15/index.md>) 'to mix aromatics, compound ointment' 1, 'perfumer, ointment-mixer' 2
- Kind: Commodity
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: OLE · RI (ri)

## Compared forms

- Akkadian: *riqqu* — riqqu 'aromatic plant, aromatics' (CAD R 368)
- Ugaritic: 𐎗𐎖𐎈 *rqḥ* — rqḥ (II) 'perfume, ointment' (DULAT 735)
- Hebrew: *reqaḥ* — reqaḥ 'spice mixture, spices' (HALOT 1290)
- Phoenician: 𐤓𐤒𐤇 *rqḥ* — rqḥ 'ointment, perfume, spice' (Krahmalkov 447)

## Attestations

- [HT 23a](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT23a/index.md>): OLE+RI ≈ ¹⁄₆ — aromatic oil
- [HT 35](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT35/index.md>): OLE+RI ¹⁄₃
- [HT 60](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT60/index.md>): OLE+RI ¹⁄₁₆
- [KH 82](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/KH82/index.md>): OLE+RI 𐝉𐝫

## Commentary

OLE with the complement RI, on HT 23a, HT 35, HT 60 and KH 82, at Haghia Triada and Khania; myrrh stands on three of the four tablets. riqqu 'aromatic substance' (CAD R 371), RI its first syllable. On HT 23a it stands with OLE+NE and OLE+TU, all at ≈⅙. The root is that of *401 RUQQÛ: Akk. rīqu, riqqu, Ebla GIŠ.NAGA = rí-ga-tum riqaḥt 'spiced, oily ointment' and Ug. rqḥ 'perfume, ointment' stand under one root |r-ḳ-ħ| (GlOS 2, 165).

## Same root

- [\*401](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/*401/index.md>) (ruqqû)
- [\*401+RU](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/*401~2BRU/index.md>)
- [VIN+RA](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/VIN~2BRA/index.md>) (raqḥ)
- [RO-KE](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/RO-KE/index.md>) (rōqēaḥ)
- [RO-QA](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/RO-QA/index.md>) (rōqaḥ)

## References

- Reading: di Mino; GlOS 2
- Krahmalkov: Krahmalkov, Charles R. (2000), A Phoenician-Punic Dictionary. Peeters (Leuven)
- HALOT: Koehler, Ludwig; Baumgartner, Walter; Stamm, Johann Jakob; Richardson, M. E. J. (trans. and ed.) (1994), The Hebrew and Aramaic Lexicon of the Old Testament, vols. I–IV. E. J. Brill, Leiden · New York · Köln
- DULAT: del Olmo Lete, Gregorio; Sanmartín, Joaquín (2015), A Dictionary of the Ugaritic Language in the Alphabetic Tradition. Brill, Leiden/Boston (Handbook of Oriental Studies 1/112); Third Revised Edition, tr. and ed. Wilfred G.E. Watson; 2 parts
- CAD R: Oriental Institute (Erica Reiner and Martha T. Roth, eds.) (1999), The Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, vol. 14, R. The Oriental Institute, Chicago
- GlOS 2: Sanmartín, Joaquín (2024), A Glossary of Old Syrian, Volume 2: l – z. Languages of the Ancient Near East 8/2,Eisenbrauns (Pennsylvania State University Press), University Park

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