RU-MA-TA

the Height (toponym of the Ramah/Ramoth type)

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Reading
rūmatā
Confidence
Candidate
Root
*rVyVm- ‘be high, long’
Kind
Toponym
Language
Semitic
Rank
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Compared forms

  • Hebrewrāmârāmâ ‘height, high place’ (HALOT 1240), and the town hārāmâ, Judg 4:5
  • Ugaritic𐎗𐎎rmrm ‘high, lofty’; ‘height’ (DULAT 730)
  • AmoriteRWM ‘be high’: rāmum, rāmatum (Gelb AS 21, 29–30)
  • Phoenician𐤓𐤌rmrm ‘high, lofty’ (Krahmalkov 444)

Attestations3 cited

  1. HT 29RU-MA-TA 2[
  2. HT 99bRU-MA-TA 1
  3. ZA 20RU-MA-TA-SE 3(men) of the Height, the -SE form of RU-MA-TA, 3

Commentary

Bare RU-MA-TA at HT 29 (2) and HT 99b (1, in the SI+SE FIC list); RU-MA-TA-SE on ZA 20 (3) beside DU-RE-ZA-SE: bare at home, -SE abroad. Every attestation carries a quantity: a recipient entry. rūmatā, √r-w-m ‘to be high’, *rūmat-, a feminine noun of place: Hebrew toponyms רוּמָה Rûmâ (2 Kgs 23:36, the u-vowel form), אֲרוּמָה ʾĂrûmâ (Judg 9:41), רָמַת Rāmat (Josh 13:26), הָרָמָתָה hā-Rāmātâ (1 Sam 1:19), רָאמֹת Rāʾmōt (Josh 20:8); Ug. rm ‘to go up’. Final -A is the written vowel. Rival: *rumanth-, the Aegean name of LB o-ru-ma-to *Orumanthos (PY Cn 3.6; ethnic o-ru-ma-si-ja-jo, PY An 519.12; DMic II 50–51), cf. Ἐρύμανθος, a mountain, with the nasal before a stop that Linear A leaves unwritten. See RU-MA.

On the 3D inscriptions

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

Linear A Lexicon