Compared forms
- Phoenician𐤒𐤓𐤕qrtqrt ‘city’ (Krahmalkov 433); construct in qrtḥdšt ‘Carthage, New City’ (Krahmalkov 434)
- Ugaritic𐎖𐎗𐎚qrtqrt ‘city’ (DULAT 702)
- Hebrewqeretqeret ‘city’, mərōmê qāret, Prov 9:3 (HALOT 1149)
Attestations1 cited
- HT 132QA-RE-TO *21F 27
Commentary
HT 132: QA-RE-TO · *21F 27, between A-SE · A319 5 and PA₃ · *305 1, in a commodity allocation. qart- ‘city (of)’, the Phoenician construct, which Melqart, milk-qart ‘king of the city’ (PS *milk-qart-), shows. Ug. qryt /qar(i)yatu/, also qrt /qarītu/ ‘city’ (Huehnergard 2012, 44), BH qiryā; the Ugarit polyglot vocabulary has qa-ri-t[u₄] ‘city’ (GlOS 1, 354). One attestation.
On the 3D inscriptions
Not written on any of the 82 inscriptions modelled so far.