OLE+TA

fine-grade olive oil; 'good oil' as an administrative quality designation

𐙖OLE*3026 entries𐘳TAAB5976 entries
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Reading
ṭābu
Confidence
Candidate
Root
*ṭayb- ‘good’ 1, ‘perfume’ 2
Kind
Commodity
Language
Semitic
Rank
—

Compared forms

  • Ugariticšmn ṭbšmn ṭb ‘perfumed (good) oil’, KTU 4.738:4 (DULAT 873)
  • Hebrewkaššemen haṭṭôbkaššemen haṭṭôb ‘like the good oil’, Ps 133:2; ṭôb ‘good’ (HALOT 370)
  • Akkadianṭābuṭābu ‘good, sweet, fresh’ (CAD Ṭ 19); šamnu ṭābu ‘sweet oil’ (HALOT 371)
  • Amoriteṭābumṭābum ‘good’ (Gelb AS 21, 35)

Attestations7 cited

  1. HT 30OLE+TA 𐝓
  2. HT 35OLE+TA
  3. KH 19OLE+TA ¹⁄₃
  4. KH 39OLE+TA
  5. KH 55OLE+TA ¹⁄₃fine-grade olive oil ('good oil')
  6. KH 61OLE+TA 𐝉𐝫
  7. KH 85OLE+TA ¹⁄₂

Commentary

OLE with the complement TA, on HT 30 and HT 35 at Haghia Triada and on KH 19, 39, 55, 61 and 85 at Khania, in small fractions (⅕, ⅓, ½, 𐝓), a premium grade issued in measured amounts. ṭābu ‘good’: Akk. ṭābu, Heb. ṭōb, Ug. ṭb, TA writing ṭa as its first syllable. Ugarit issues šmn ṭb ‘good oil’ (KTU 4.14, 4.91, 4.158), and Ebla writes Ì.DU₁₀ = sa-ma-nu-um da-bù samnum ṭābu ‘good oil’, D for ṭ (GlOS 2, 311). See DA-I-PI-TA.

On the 3D inscriptions

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

Linear A Lexicon