RO-KE

perfumer (title); rival rōkēl 'trader, merchant'

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Reading: rōqēaḥ
Confidence: Speculative
Root: *rVḳVḥ- ‘to mix aromatics, compound ointment’ 1…
Kind: Personnel
Language: Semitic
Rank: —

Compared forms

Eblaiterāqiḥrāqiḥ ‘oil-perfumer’, lexical list (Sanmartín GlOS 2, 165)
Ugaritic𐎗𐎖𐎈rqḥrqḥ (I) ‘perfumer’ (DULAT 734)
Hebrew (rival)rōkēlrōkēl ‘trader’: hā-rōkĕlîm beside the goldsmiths (Neh 3:31–32); ʾabqat rôkēl ‘the merchant’s powders’ (Song 3:6)

Attestations1 cited

HT 98aRO-KE ¹⁄₂the trader, recipient of ½; rival rōqēaḥ 'perfumer'

Commentary

HT 98a .4 RO-KE ½, whole and undotted, between TE-*301 ¾ and KA-RI-*310-I ¼, in a list of fractional issues with TA-NA-TI; wine on face b (GORILA I 161). The qōṭēl participle with Canaanite ō, as RO-E rōʿē; KE writes q, the final ḥ unwritten. Ebla rāqiḥ ‘oil-perfumer’ (GlOS 2, 165) and Ugarit rqḥ ‘perfumer, druggist’ (DULAT 734) attest the title. Rival: rōkēl ‘trader’, with KE at k and the final l unwritten, as Linear B drops a word-final liquid (ma-te mātēr, PY An 607); unattested in the Bronze Age. See RO-QA and *401.

On the 3D inscriptions

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