# RO-E (rōʿē)

> herdsman, shepherd (title on a label)

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

- Reading: rōʿē
- Confidence: Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once.
- Root: [\*rVʕVy- 1, \*rāʕ- 2](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/454/index.md>) 'pasture, guard livestock, herd, graze (trans.)' (v.) 1, 'herdsman' 2
- Kind: Personnel
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: RO (ro) · E (e)

## Compared forms

- Hebrew: *rōʿeh* — rōʿeh 'shepherd'
- Ugaritic: 𐎗𐎓𐎊 *rʿy* — rʿy 'shepherd', in ration lists: rʿym tlt ddm 'shepherds: three cauldronsful (of flour)' (DULAT 716)

## Attestations

- [PH 24](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/PH24/index.md>): RO-E — herdsman, shepherd (title on a label)

## Commentary

PH 24, an MM II label, RO-E the only group, whole and undotted (GORILA I 310–311). rō-ʿē, the qōtēl participle as in RO-KE rōqēaḥ, ʿ unwritten: Heb. rōʿeh, Ug. rʿy 'shepherd' (DULAT 716). Rival: rōʾē 'seer' (PS *rVʾVy-). One witness. See RA-O-DI-KI.

## Same root

- [RA-O-DI-KI](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/RA-O-DI-KI/index.md>) (rāʿû diqqi)

## In the onomasticon

- [RO-E](<https://linear-a.ai/names/RO-E/index.md>): Title, Semitic

## References

- Reading: di Mino; DULAT
- 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
- 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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