# RU-KA (ruqāq)

> thin bread, wafers (qualifier of \*309C KIKKARU)

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

- Reading: ruqāq
- Confidence: Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once.
- Root: [\*riḳ-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/1187/index.md>) 'be thin' 1, 'be shallow' 2
- Kind: Commodity
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: RU (ru) · KA (ka)

## Compared forms

- Arabic: الرُقاق *ruqāq* — ruqāq (الرُقاق) 'thin bread'; ruqāqa 'a single thin, round cake of bread' (Lane 1131)
- Hebrew: רָקִיק *rāqîq* — rāqîq (רָקִיק) 'wafer', beside kikkar leḥem 'round of bread' (Exod 29:23)
- Akkadian: *raqqatu* — raqqatu D '(a type of bread)', Emar (CAD R 171)
- Old Syrian: Emar NINDA ru-qa-nu ruqqānu, Ebla ra-ga-gu raqaq 'thin cake, waffle' (GlOS 2, 166)

## Attestations

- [TY 2](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/TY2/index.md>): \*309C-\[?\]-RU-KA 30

## Commentary

TY 2 .5 *309C-[?]-RU-KA 30, one of eight qualifiers joined to *309. RU-KA writes ruqāq, the final q unwritten. Exod 29:23 sets rāqîq beside kikkar leḥem, the pairing TY 2 shows; Akk. raqqatu, a bread at Emar (CAD R 171). Sign order follows GORILA's facsimile, RU over KA (GORILA I 324–325). Rival: a place or recipient name, as the other qualifiers can be read. The hook atop *309C is joined to the circle, as the curl on *309 at .3 and .6 (GORILA I 325). Weak point: *309 = KIKKARU is a proposed value. One attestation.

## References

- Reading: di Mino; GlOS 2
- Lane: Lane, Edward William (1863), An Arabic-English Lexicon. Williams and Norgate, London
- 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
- 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
- GlOS 2: Sanmartín, Joaquín (2024), A Glossary of Old Syrian, Volume 2: l – z. Languages of the Ancient Near East 8/2,Eisenbrauns (Pennsylvania State University Press), University Park

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