# PU-VIN (pūra)

> the (wine-)vat, a pressing unit (allocation heading); rival 'madder'

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

- Reading: pūra
- Confidence: Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once.
- Root: [\*pVwVr-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/846/index.md>) 'boil' 1, 'anger, rage' 2, 'vat, trough of the wine-press' 3
- Kind: Administrative
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: PU (pu) · VIN

## Compared forms

- Hebrew: פּוּרָה *pûrâ* — pûrâ (פּוּרָה) 'wine-press' (BDB 807), 'tub, trough' (HALOT 920); pûrâ dāraktî lᵉbaddî 'I have trodden the vat alone' (Isa 63:3), // gat (Isa 63:2); Hag 2:16

## Attestations

- [HT 14](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT14/index.md>): PU-VIN TE GRA 30 — the (wine-)vat, a pressing unit
- [HT 123+124a](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT123~2B124a/index.md>): PU-VIN OLIV 31 ¹⁄₂ — the (wine-)vat, a pressing unit

## Commentary

More exactly PU-*131A. PU as the onset of pûrâ, VIN as its classifier, as ME VIN mesek. HT 123+124a: PU-*131A · OLIV 31½, *308 8¾, KI-RO, the second of four parties beside KI-TA-I gittī 'of the press', SA-RU and DA-TU; each returns pressed oil at about a quarter of its olives, so the parties are pressing units, and gat and pûrâ are the pair of Isa 63:2–3. HT 14: PU-VIN · TE · GRA 30, two oils, *304, OLIV, beside A-PU₂-NA-DU; PU is written over an erased sign (GORILA I 29). Rival: Ug. pwt 'madder' (DULAT 678), Heb. PN Puwwāh (Gen 46:13), with VIN for wa as VIN+WA on HT 27b.

## References

- Reading: di Mino; BDB; HALOT
- HALOT: Koehler, Ludwig; Baumgartner, Walter; Stamm, Johann Jakob; Richardson, M. E. J. (trans. and ed.) (1994), The Hebrew and Aramaic Lexicon of the Old Testament, vols. I–IV. E. J. Brill, Leiden · New York · Köln
- DULAT: del Olmo Lete, Gregorio; Sanmartín, Joaquín (2015), A Dictionary of the Ugaritic Language in the Alphabetic Tradition. Brill, Leiden/Boston (Handbook of Oriental Studies 1/112); Third Revised Edition, tr. and ed. Wilfred G.E. Watson; 2 parts
- BDB: Brown, Francis; Driver, S. R.; Briggs, Charles A. (1907), A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament, with an Appendix Containing the Biblical Aramaic. Houghton Mifflin Company
- GORILA I: Godart, Louis; Olivier, Jean-Pierre (1976), Recueil des inscriptions en linéaire A, volume 1: Tablettes éditées avant 1970 (GORILA I). École française d'Athènes (Études crétoises XXI, 1); Librairie orientaliste Paul Geuthner, Paris

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