SA-RE-JU

personal name, 'El is king'; rival Hurrian Šar-elli

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Reading
Šarr-ēlu
Confidence
Speculative
Root
*ŝarr- ‘king, prince, official’ + *ʾil- ‘god, deity’
Kind
Personal name
Language
Semitic
Rank
—

Compared forms

  • AmoriteŚARR-A+ʾIL, ŠAR-RA-DINGIR, Alalakh IV (Gelb 1980 no. 5846)
  • Ugaritic𐎌𐎗šršr (III) ‘Prince, Sovereign’, divine title: [š]lm ỉl šr (KTU 1.123:3; DULAT 829)
  • HebrewMalkîʾēl, the same sentence with mlk (Gen 46:17)
  • HurrianŠar-elli, the queen ṯryl, syll. šar-e-li (DULAT s.v. ṯryl; Laroche GLH 78), rival

Attestations1 cited

  1. HT 20SA-RE-JU ¹⁄₈personal name, 'El is king', ⅛; rival Hurrian Šar-elli

Commentary

HT 20 .4 SA-RE-JU ⅛, after CAPm ⅛ and before TELA, in the list under PA-RO-SU beside KU-MA-JU and QE-KU-RE (GORILA I 36–37). ša-r(ʾ)ē-lu sign for sign: JU writes lu, the nominative of ʾēlu, and RE carries the ē once the ʾ drops at the join. Ugaritic šr ‘Prince, Sovereign’ is El’s title in ỉl šr ‘El, the Sovereign’ (KTU 1.123:3; DULAT 829). Rival: Hurrian Šar-elli, syll. šar-e-li (DULAT s.v. ṯryl; Laroche GLH 78), whose -li mismatches JU. One witness. See SA-RU, I-RA₂, PI-RU-E-JU and DI-NA-RO.

On the 3D inscriptions

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

Linear A Lexicon