OLE+U

pressed oil (ʿuṣār)

𐜋OLE+U*6101 entries
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Reading
ʿuṣār
Confidence
Candidate
Root
*ʿVṣVr- ‘press’
Kind
Commodity
Language
Semitic
Rank
—

Compared forms

  • Arabicʿaṣaraʿaṣara ‘he pressed it so as to force out its juice, honey, oil’ (Lane 2061); ʿuṣārat, coll. ʿuṣār, ‘expressed juice’ (Lane 2062)
  • AramaicSyriac ʿṣarSyriac ʿṣar ‘tread, press out; crush’ (Payne Smith 423); JArm. maʿṣartā ‘press’ (Tg. Ps.-J. Num 18:27)

Attestations13 cited

  1. HT 23DA-KA-RU OLE+U 20olive oil subtype U
  2. HT 21OLE+U 11
  3. HT 28aOLE+U 2
  4. HT 42+59OLE+U[ ]7U-grade oil (highest-frequency OLE compound, 22 att.; specific grade TBD). 7 + 2 + [qty lost] units
  5. HT 44aOLE+U 5olive oil subtype U
  6. HT 58OLE+U 19
  7. HT 91OLE+U ≈ ¹⁄₆pressed oil (ʿuṣār)
  8. HT 96bOLE+U 4olive oil variant

Commentary

OLE with the adjunct U, 22 tokens on 13 documents from Haghia Triada and Tylissos (TY 3a): a distinct oil subtype. ʿuṣār ‘pressed (oil)’, √ʿ-ṣ-r: Arb. ʿaṣara ‘he pressed it so as to force out its juice, sirup, honey, oil’ (Lane 2061), and ʿuṣārat, coll. ʿuṣār, ‘expressed juice… of things having oil or sirup or honey’ (Lane 2062), the u that U writes; Syr. ʿṣar ‘tread, press out’ (Payne Smith 423); JArm. maʿṣartā ‘press’ (Tg. Ps.-J. Num 18:27). The ʿ goes unwritten, as in E. Weak point: the noun ʿuṣār is Arabic.

On the 3D inscriptions1 inscription

HT 2Haghia Triada2×OLE+UOLE+U
Linear A Lexicon