RO

principal, primary, capital (quality/grade marker on sealed goods and commodity allocations)

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Reading
rōš
Confidence
Probable
Root
*raʾ(i)š- ‘head’
Kind
Administrative
Language
Semitic
Rank
#58 of the top 100

Compared forms

  • Akkadianrūšturūštu ‘fine quality of oil’, written Ì.SAG (CAD R 430); rēštû ‘first, firstborn’ (CAD R 274)
  • Hebrewrōʾšrōʾš ‘head; first, best’; bəśāmîm rōʾš ‘the finest spices’, Exod 30:23 (HALOT 1164)
  • Ugariticrišriš ‘head; authority; top; firstfruits’ (DULAT 713)
  • Phoenician𐤓𐤀𐤔rʾšrʾš ‘head, leader, capital’ (Krahmalkov 436)

Attestations97 cited

  1. HT 110bRO 20
  2. KH 100RO VIN[
  3. PH Wc 39JA-DI ROprincipal, first quality (grade marker)
  4. ZA 1b]RO GRA 47
  5. HT Wa 1032RO
  6. HT Wa 1033RO
  7. HT Wa 1034RO
  8. HT Wa 1035RO

Commentary

ZA 1b ]RO GRA 47 and KH 100 RO VIN[, before the commodity: ‘principal grain’, ‘principal wine’; HT 110b RO 20 under GRA; PH Wc 39 JA-DI RO, on a roundel. RO stands alone on 90 HT Wa nodules, HT Wb 2001 and 2002, and ZA Wa 36, marking the sealed goods as of the first grade. rōʾš ‘head; first, best’: Heb. rōʾš, bəśāmîm rōʾš ‘balsam of top quality’ (Exod 30:23; HALOT 1166), Ug. riš ‘head; top; first-fruits’ (DULAT 713), Akk. rēšu ‘head; top; beginning’ (CAD R 277), Arb. raʾs, Aram. rēš. See RI-SU-MA.

On the 3D inscriptions

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

Linear A Lexicon