# PU-NI-KA (punniga)

> a kind of bread, counted by the loaf (\*363); rival: a personal name

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

- Reading: punniga
- Confidence: Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once.
- Root: p-n-g
- Kind: Commodity
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: PU (pu) · NI (ni) · KA (ka)

## Compared forms

- Akkadian: pannigu, punnigu, punnugu 'a type of bread', counted in loaves: 2 NINDA pan-ni-gu (Or. NS 36 25:14); NINDA.MEŠ pu-ni-gu, 190 loaves (VAS 19 7:4, MA); NINDA pu-ni-kum (Emar 6 472:31) (CAD P 83–84)
- Hebrew: pannag, traded with wheat: ḥiṭṭê minnît ûpannag 'wheat of Minnith and pannag' (Ezek 27:17)

## Attestations

- [ZA 14](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/ZA14/index.md>): PU-NI-KA-\*363 3 — bread, 3 loaves (*363 the loaf); rival a personal name

## Commentary

ZA 14 .2 PU-NI-KA-*363 3, after *21F-*118 1 ḥiṭṭa 'wheat' (GORILA III 181): wheat, then pannag, as in Ezek 27:17. KA writes ga: punniga, the u-form punnigu (CAD P 83). The scribe wrote PU-NI-*363 and added KA small (GORILA III 181). *363 occurs nowhere else and closes the entry before the numeral: the loaf, as Akkadian counts this bread by NINDA. The wheat, measured, takes no such sign. Rival: a personal name. One attestation.

## References

- Reading: di Mino; CAD P; GORILA III
- CAD P: Oriental Institute (Martha T. Roth, ed.) (2005), The Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, vol. 12, P. The Oriental Institute, Chicago
- GORILA III: Godart, Louis; Olivier, Jean-Pierre (1976), Recueil des inscriptions en linéaire A, volume 3: Tablettes, nodules et rondelles édités en 1975 et 1976 (GORILA III). École française d'Athènes (Études crétoises XXI, 3); Librairie orientaliste Paul Geuthner, Paris

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