# RU-MA (Rūma)

> Height (toponym), the bare form of RU-MA-TA rūmatā

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

- Reading: Rūma
- Confidence: Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once.
- Root: [\*rVyVm-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/1135/index.md>) 'be high, long'
- Kind: Toponym
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: RU (ru) · MA (ma)

## Compared forms

- Hebrew: TN Rûmâ (2 Kgs 23:36)
- Amorite: RUWM-AT-UM, RU-MA-TUM, personal name (Gelb 1980, no. 5306)

## Attestations

- [HT 64](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT64/index.md>): RU-MA — Height (toponym), 3

## Commentary

HT 64 .2 ]NA 2 RU-MA, whole against the tablet's right edge; only GORILA's normalized box adds the bracket (GORILA I 118–119). rū-ma sign for sign as Heb. Rûmâ (2 Kgs 23:36). The bare form of RU-MA-TA rūmatā 'the Height' (HT 29, HT 99b), √r-w-m. Rival: a personal name of the Amorite RU-MA-TUM type (Gelb 1980, no. 5306). One witness.

## Same root

- [TE](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/TE/index.md>) (terûmā)
- [RU-MA-TA](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/RU-MA-TA/index.md>) (rūmatā)
- [JA-RU-MA-NE](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/JA-RU-MA-NE/index.md>) (Yarīmān)
- [JA-RE-MI](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/JA-RE-MI/index.md>) (Yarīm)

## In the onomasticon

- [RU-MA](<https://linear-a.ai/names/RU-MA/index.md>): Place, Semitic

## References

- Reading: di Mino
- AS 21: Gelb, Ignace J. (1980), Computer-aided Analysis of Amorite. Assyriological Studies 21,The Oriental Institute of the University of 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

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