# RI-RU-MA (Lirumā)

> personal name, 'Pomegranate' (Ug. lrmn); recipient of pigs

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

- Reading: Lirumā
- Confidence: Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once.
- Root: [\*rummān-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/2699/index.md>) 'pomegranate'
- Kind: Personal name
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: RI (ri) · RU (ru) · MA (ma)

## Compared forms

- Ugaritic: 𐎍𐎗𐎎𐎐 *lrmn* — lrmn 'pomegranate', pl. lrmnm (DULAT 499)
- Akkadian: *lurmû* — lurmû 'pomegranate', MA lurimā'u lu-ri-ma-e, lurimtu EA 25 (CAD L 255 f.); PN Lu-ri-in-di-ya (HALOT 1242)
- Hebrew: *rimmôn* — rimmôn 'pomegranate'; PN Rimmon, 2 Sam 4:2 (HALOT 1241 f.)

## Attestations

- [HT 118](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT118/index.md>): RI-RU-MA 10 — personal name, 'Pomegranate' (Ug. lrmn); recipient of pigs

## Commentary

HT 118 .4 RI-RU-MA 10, a recipient of pigs after MA-DI, QA-QA-RU and A-RI-SU (GORILA I 200 f.), all three signs whole. Ugaritic lrmn 'pomegranate' (DULAT 499); Middle Assyrian lurimāʾu, lu-ri-ma-e (CAD L 255 f.). RI writes l; the final n is unwritten. A man's name: Hebrew Rimmon (2 Sam 4:2), Akkadian Lu-ri-in-di-ya (HALOT 1242). Cf. PH(?)31b [·]-RU-MA-TI, Akkadian lurimtu. One witness.

## In the onomasticon

- [RI-RU-MA](<https://linear-a.ai/names/RI-RU-MA/index.md>): Personal name, Semitic

## References

- Reading: di Mino; DULAT; CAD L; HALOT
- EA: Moran, William L. (1992), The Amarna Letters. Johns Hopkins University Press
- 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
- CAD L: Oriental Institute (A. Leo Oppenheim and Erica Reiner, eds.) (1973), The Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, vol. 9, L. The Oriental Institute, Chicago; J. J. Augustin, Glückstadt
- 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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