# TU-RU-SA (Tursa) > Shield, Protector (invoked in formula position two); the name Tursha A Linear A word in the Linear A Lexicon. The reading is a proposal and carries its tier. - Reading: Tursa - Confidence: Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once. - Root: [\*turs-]() 'shield' 1, 'door-bar' 2 - Kind: Divine - Language: Semitic - Signs: TU (tu) · RU (ru) · SA (sa) ## Compared forms - Arabic: تُرْس *turs* — تُرْس turs 'shield', tatarrasa 'he shielded himself' (Lane 302) - Aramaic: תְּרִיסָא *tᵉrîsā* — תְּרִיסָא tᵉrîsā 'shield', rendering Hebrew māgēn (Tg. Ps 3:4) and ṣinnāh (Tg. Ps 5:13) (Jastrow 1698) - Egyptian: twršꜣ Tursha, a Sea People, under Merneptah and at Medinet Habu (di Mino, Ya Diktu) ## Attestations - [KO Za 1](): TU-RU-SA DU-\*314-RE I-DA-A — Shield, Protector; the name Tursha ## Commentary KO Za 1, formula position two, before DU-*314-RE · I-DA-A dubur ʾIda 'the sanctuary of Ida'. √t-r-s 'to shield, protect' (Ar. turs; Lane 302); the shield-bearing Kouretes of Ida, and the Sea People Tursha, named from the same root (di Mino, Ya Diktu). Rival: Mari has Tursa as a place or ethnic name (FM V, 281). One attestation. ## In the onomasticon - [TU-RU-SA](): God or goddess, Semitic ## References - Reading: di Mino; FM V - Jastrow: Jastrow, Marcus (1903), A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature. Luzac & Co., London; G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York; 2 vols - Lane: Lane, Edward William (1863), An Arabic-English Lexicon. Williams and Norgate, London - Ya Diktu: di Mino, Tom (2026), Ya Diktu: Grammar of the Minoan Peak Sanctuary Libation Formula. Minoan Mystery, online,46 pp. --- Page: https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/TU-RU-SA/ Licence: CC BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Cite as: di Mino, Tom. 2026. Linear A Lexicon. Plasma AI. https://linear-a.ai/. Data: kaphtor, commit 50525edd.