TE

contribution, offering (terûmā), a transaction marker

𐘃TEAB0446 entries
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Reading
terûmā
Confidence
Candidate
Root
*rVyVm- ‘be high, long’
Kind
Administrative
Language
Semitic
Rank
—

Compared forms

  • Hebrewתְּרוּמָהterûmāterûmā (תְּרוּמָה) ‘contribution, sacred donation’ (Exod 25:2), from √r-w-m
  • Ugaritic𐎚𐎗𐎎𐎚trmttrmt ‘offering’ (KTU 1.43:3; 1.6 VI:44; Copenhagen Ugaritic Corpus lexicon)
  • Akkadiancf. tāmartucf. tāmartu ‘gift, present (to temple or king)’

Attestations54 cited

  1. HT 6aDA-TA-RA TE NI 15
  2. HT 9a3DSA-RO TE VINcontribution (abbreviation)
  3. HT 13KA-U-DE-TA VIN TEcontribution (transaction sign)
  4. HT 14PU-VIN TE GRA 30contribution (transaction or category marker)
  5. HT 17RA-*164-TI TE VIN 38offering, contribution
  6. HT 19RA-*164-TI TE VIN 30offering, contribution
  7. HT 21PI-TA-KA-SE TE GRA 161
  8. HT 40NU-DU-*331 TE GRA 207

Commentary

TE stands with VIN in the heading of every HT wine tablet and with the large barley entries of HT 40, 52 and 133 (Montecchi 2010, 17, 19). It marks commodity-number entries on 54 documents, and 25 HT nodules carry it alone (HT Wa 1122–1146). terûmā ‘contribution, offering’ (HALOT 1788), Ug. trmt ‘offering’, trmt lbš w ktn ‘an offering: a garment and a tunic’ (KTU 1.43:3; DULAT 866); TE abbreviates it, and VIN+TE is a wine-offering. Weak point: KU stands beside the full KU-RO kull, where no TE-RU-MA stands beside TE. See RU-MA.

On the 3D inscriptions3 inscriptions

SAM Wa 1Samothrace…te…HT 9a–bHaghia TriadateHT 133Haghia Triadate…
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