PA

barr- 'wheat, threshed grain'

𐘂PAAB0339 entries
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Reading
barr
Confidence
Candidate
Root
*barr- ‘wheat’
Kind
Commodity
Language
Semitic
Rank
—

Compared forms

  • Hebrewbārbār ‘clean, threshed grain’, Gen 41:35–49 (HALOT 153)
  • Arabicburrburr ‘wheat’ (HALOT 153)
  • Epigraphic South Arabianbrbr ‘wheat’ (HALOT 153)

Attestations7 cited

  1. HT 25aPA 1single sign with 1
  2. HT 85bPA 1roster category logogram (unread)
  3. ZA 10aPA 1Logogram/abbreviation (unresolved)
  4. ZA 12aPA 64
  5. ZA 12bPA 40
  6. ZA 16PA 6
  7. ZA 21a]PA 5

Commentary

Single-sign commodity logogram: PA writes the ba- of barr- ‘wheat, threshed grain’, Hebrew bār (Gen 41:35–49; HALOT 153). Standalone commodity (16×, 5 sites) in bulk quantities, 64 and 40 on ZA 12a/b, clustering with TI (figs). After GRA, PA is the measure parīsu (GRA+PA); *304+PA 3×. On HT 8a PA takes KI-oil 3½ in a list of recipients, an abbreviation there. Rival: parīsu standing alone. One sign, no phonetic complement.

On the 3D inscriptions1 inscription

TY 3bTylissospa OLE+MI
Linear A Lexicon