# OLE+TU

> ṭuhūru 'purified/ritually clean oil'

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: [\*ṭahar-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/2660/index.md>) 'to be clean, pure'
- Kind: Ritual
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: OLE · TU (tu)

## Compared forms

- Ugaritic: 𐎉𐎅𐎗 *ṭhr* — ṭhr 'pure'; syll. ṭu-ú-ru = Akk. ellu 'pure', h unwritten (GlOS 2, 307)

## Attestations

- [HT 23a](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT23a/index.md>): OLE+TU ≈ ¹⁄₆ — purified oil
- [HT 28a](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT28a/index.md>): OLE+TU 𐝉
- [TY 3a](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/TY3a/index.md>): OLE+TU 1

## Commentary

HT 23a: five entries at the same fraction under KA-NA (*308, OLE+NE, OLE+TU, OLE+RI, MI+JA+RU); also HT 28a and TY 3a (OLE+TU 1). The OLE ideogram with the TU adjunct, TU the initial of ṭuhūru 'purified': Ug. ṭhr /ṭuhūru/ 'pure' (Huehnergard 2012, 45), Heb. ṭāhôr; Linear A writes √ṭ-h-r in TU-*21F-RI-NA ṭuhārīna (HT 129). Cf. *OLIV+TU (HT 50a, HT 101, HT 116a). Three attestations.

## Same root

- [TU-\*21F-RI-NA](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/TU-*21F-RI-NA/index.md>) (ṭuhārīna)

## References

- Reading: di Mino; Huehnergard 2012; GlOS 2
- Huehnergard, John (2012), An Introduction to Ugaritic. Hendrickson
- 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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