SA-MA

herb, aromatic plant (commodity term in allocation lists)

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Reading
samm-
Confidence
Candidate
Root
*samm- ‘plant’
Kind
Commodity
Language
Semitic
Rank
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Compared forms

  • Akkadianšammu(m) "herb, plant, drug, aromatic"—ubiquitous in administrative/pharmaceutical texts
  • Hebrewסַמִּיםsammîmsammîm (סַמִּים) "spices, aromatics" (Exod 30:34)

Attestations4 cited

  1. HT 10aSA-MA 4herbs, aromatic plants, 4
  2. HT 52aSA-MA TE
  3. HT 6bSA-MA 35
  4. ZA 10bSA-MA 5

Commentary

HT 10a: the first entry under KU-NI-SU ‘emmer’, quantity 4, on an allocation tablet. samm- ‘plant, herb’, PS *samm-: Ug. smm ‘perfume’ (DULAT 751), Akk. šammu(m) ‘plant, herb’, the geminate mm written single. Rival: a place name, on the quantity 35 of HT 6b. Weak point: no commodity logogram stands with SA-MA on its four tablets.

On the 3D inscriptions

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

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