QE-KU-RE

rounds, round cakes of (a commodity); talent; rival the personal name Qaqqaru

𐘿QEAB7819 entries𐙂KUAB8150 entries𐘙REAB2751 entries
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Reading
kikkᵊrē
Confidence
Speculative
Root
*kakkar-/*kikkar- ‘round loaf, disk’
Kind
Commodity
Language
Semitic
Rank
—

Compared forms

  • Hebrewkikkᵊrê, construct pl., ‘talents of’ (2 Kgs 5:5)
  • Ugaritic𐎋𐎋𐎗kkrkkr ‘talent’ (DULAT 430–31); kkr ḥlb ‘a talent of cheese’ (DULAT 355)
  • Emarka-ak-ka-ri, ka-ak-ka-ru kakkaru ‘talent, loaf of bread’ (Emar 387:5; Pentiuc 2001, 91)

Attestations1 cited

  1. HT 20QE-KU-RE DI ¹⁄₂rounds of (a commodity)

Commentary

HT 20 .2–.3 QE-KU-RE · DI ½, whole and undotted, the second entry under PA-RO-SU in a list where every entry takes a fraction (GORILA I 37). kik-kᵊrē, a construct before the commodity sign DI, as Hebrew kikkᵊrê kesep ‘talents of silver’ (2 Kgs 5:5). QE at its k value; Ugarit writes the word with ka₄, the QA sign (DULAT 430–31). Rival: the name Qaqqaru, spelled QA-QA-RU elsewhere at Haghia Triada. One witness. See QA-KU-RE, KI-KI-RA-JA and KE-KI-RU.

On the 3D inscriptions

Not written on any of the 82 inscriptions modelled so far.

Linear A Lexicon