# RO (rōš) > principal, primary, capital (quality/grade marker on sealed goods and commodity allocations) A Linear A word in the Linear A Lexicon. The reading is a proposal and carries its tier. - Reading: rōš - Confidence: Probable. Fits the word’s contexts and has a close external comparison, without an independent control. - Root: [\*raʾ(i)š-]() 'head' - Kind: Administrative - Language: Semitic - Signs: RO (ro) - Rank: #58 of the top 100 ## Compared forms - Akkadian: *rūštu* — rūštu 'fine quality of oil', written Ì.SAG (CAD R 430); rēštû 'first, firstborn' (CAD R 274) - Hebrew: *rōʾš* — rōʾš 'head; first, best'; bəśāmîm rōʾš 'the finest spices', Exod 30:23 (HALOT 1164) - Ugaritic: *riš* — riš 'head; authority; top; firstfruits' (DULAT 713) - Phoenician: 𐤓𐤀𐤔 *rʾš* — rʾš 'head, leader, capital' (Krahmalkov 436) ## Attestations - [HT 110b](): RO 20 - [KH 100](): RO VIN\[ - [PH Wc 39](): JA-DI RO — principal, first quality (grade marker) - [ZA 1b](): \]RO GRA 47 - [HT Wa 1032](): RO - [HT Wa 1033](): RO - [HT Wa 1034](): RO - [HT Wa 1035](): RO - [HT Wa 1036](): RO - [HT Wa 1037](): RO - [HT Wa 1038](): RO - [HT Wa 1039](): RO - [HT Wa 1040](): RO - [HT Wa 1041](): RO - [HT Wa 1042](): RO - [HT Wa 1043](): RO - [HT Wa 1044](): RO - [HT Wa 1045](): RO - [HT Wa 1046](): RO - [HT Wa 1047](): RO - [HT Wa 1048](): RO - [HT Wa 1049](): RO - [HT Wa 1050](): RO - [HT Wa 1051](): RO - [HT Wa 1052](): RO - [HT Wa 1053](): RO - [HT Wa 1054](): RO - [HT Wa 1055](): RO - [HT Wa 1056](): RO - [HT Wa 1057](): RO - [HT Wa 1058](): RO - [HT Wa 1059](): RO - [HT Wa 1060](): RO - [HT Wa 1061](): RO - [HT Wa 1062](): RO - [HT Wa 1063](): RO - [HT Wa 1064](): RO - [HT Wa 1065](): RO - [HT Wa 1066](): RO - [HT Wa 1067](): RO - [HT Wa 1068](): RO - [HT Wa 1069](): RO - [HT Wa 1070](): RO - [HT Wa 1071](): RO - [HT Wa 1072](): RO - [HT Wa 1073](): RO - [HT Wa 1074](): RO - [HT Wa 1075](): RO - [HT Wa 1076](): RO - [HT Wa 1077](): RO - [HT Wa 1078](): RO - [HT Wa 1079](): RO - [HT Wa 1080](): RO - [HT Wa 1081](): RO - [HT Wa 1082](): RO - [HT Wa 1083](): RO - [HT Wa 1084](): RO - [HT Wa 1085](): RO - [HT Wa 1086](): RO - [HT Wa 1087](): RO - [HT Wa 1088](): RO - [HT Wa 1089](): RO - [HT Wa 1090](): RO - [HT Wa 1091](): RO - [HT Wa 1092](): RO - [HT Wa 1093](): RO - [HT Wa 1094](): RO - [HT Wa 1095](): RO - [HT Wa 1096](): RO - [HT Wa 1097](): RO - [HT Wa 1098](): RO - [HT Wa 1099](): RO - [HT Wa 1100](): RO - [HT Wa 1101](): RO - [HT Wa 1102](): RO - [HT Wa 1103](): RO - [HT Wa 1104](): RO - [HT Wa 1105](): RO - [HT Wa 1106](): RO - [HT Wa 1107](): RO - [HT Wa 1108](): RO - [HT Wa 1109](): RO - [HT Wa 1110](): RO - [HT Wa 1111](): RO - [HT Wa 1112](): RO - [HT Wa 1113](): RO - [HT Wa 1114](): RO - [HT Wa 1115](): RO - [HT Wa 1116](): RO - [HT Wa 1117](): RO - [HT Wa 1118](): RO - [HT Wa 1119](): RO - [HT Wa 1120](): RO - [HT Wa 1121](): RO - [HT Wb 2001](): RO - [HT Wb 2002](): RO - [ZA Wa 36](): RO ## 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. ## Same root - [RI-SU-MA]() (rīšum(a)) ## References - Reading: di Mino - Krahmalkov: Krahmalkov, Charles R. (2000), A Phoenician-Punic Dictionary. Peeters (Leuven) - 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 R: Oriental Institute (Erica Reiner and Martha T. Roth, eds.) (1999), The Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, vol. 14, R. The Oriental Institute, Chicago --- Page: https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/RO/ Licence: CC BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Cite as: di Mino, Tom. 2026. Linear A Lexicon. Plasma AI. https://linear-a.ai/. Data: kaphtor, commit 50525edd.