TI-MA-RU-WI-TE

Timar the Levite (f.), priestess (woman's name and title); rival Tamar + WI-TE

𐘠TIAB3752 entries𐙁MAAB8056 entries𐘘RUAB2645 entries𐘣WIAB4012 entries𐘃TEAB0446 entries
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Reading
Tīmar-luwwīt
Confidence
Speculative
Root
*tam(V)r- ‘palm tree’
Kind
Personal name
Language
Semitic
Rank
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Compared forms

  • Hebrewתִּמֹרָהtimmōrātimmōrā תִּמֹרָה ‘palm-shaped ornament’ (HALOT 1757), carved with cherubim in Solomon’s temple (1 Kgs 6:29, 32, 35); PN Tamar תָּמָר (Gen 38:6); Lēwî, named by his mother Leah (Gen 29:34)
  • Minaeanlwʾtlwʾt ‘priestess’: lwʾtn S¹lmy ‘the priestess Salmay’, daughter of a priestess (M 333, RES 3357); lwʾtn Mwʾl ‘the priestess Mwʾl’ and her property (M 358, RES 3697), Dedan (DASI)
  • AmoriteTAMAR-U, TA-MA-RU (Gelb 1980 no. 6027)

Attestations1 cited

  1. PYR 1TI-MA-RU-WI-TE *806-VIN 90

Commentary

PY R 1 .1–2 TI-MA-RU-WI-TE, a ligature and VIN 90, the only entry (GORILA I 322). TI-MA writes Tīmar ‘palm’, the final r unwritten before the l of luwwīt, both in the R-series, with the i of Heb. timmōrā ‘palm-shaped ornament’ (HALOT 1757). RU-WI-TE writes luwwīt, the feminine of luwwī as in DU-RU-WI (HT 25a). A name with a title, as Minaean lwʾtn S¹lmy ‘the priestess Salmay’, a priestess’s daughter (M 333). Rival: TI-MA-RU Tamar, Amorite TA-MA-RU (Gelb 1980, no. 6027), with WI-TE from √w-d-d, as in WI-TE-JA-MU. See TO-MA-RO.

On the 3D inscriptions

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

Linear A Lexicon