# SA-MA-RO (Samarō)

> Samarō, personal name, 'guard'

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

- Reading: Samarō
- Confidence: Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once.
- Root: [\*šVmVr-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/K0524/index.md>) 'guard'
- Kind: Personal name
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: SA (sa) · MA (ma) · RO (ro)
- Rank: Amorite-linked appendix

## Compared forms

- Hebrew: *šmr* — šmr 'to guard' (HALOT 1581)
- Amorite: samar, a name element 'guard, watch' (Huffmon 1965, 251); bare ŚAMAR-A, SA-MA-RA (Gelb 1980, no. 5437); ʾAbī-Śamar (no. 134)
- Egyptian: *smr* — smr 'courtier' (ORAEC)

## Attestations

- [HT 88](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT88/index.md>): SA-MA-RO 1 — personal name; NWS √š-m-r or Egyptian smr

## Commentary

HT 88, one of six one-unit entries in the KI-RO roster. √š-m-r 'guard', the Amorite name element samar (Huffmon 1965, 251). Rival: Egyptian smr 'courtier'. One witness.

## In the onomasticon

- [SA-MA-RO](<https://linear-a.ai/names/SA-MA-RO/index.md>): Personal name, Semitic

## References

- Reading: di Mino; Huffmon 1965; Gelb 1980
- AS 21: Gelb, Ignace J. (1980), Computer-aided Analysis of Amorite. Assyriological Studies 21,The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago
- APNM: Huffmon, Herbert B. (1965), Amorite Personal Names in the Mari Texts: A Structural and Lexical Study. The Johns Hopkins Press, Baltimore
- 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

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