TU

bull, cattle (logographic abbreviation of ṯawr; administrative commodity category for bovine livestock/products)

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Reading
ṯawr
Confidence
Candidate
Root
*ṯawr- ‘bull, ox’
Kind
Animal
Language
Semitic
Rank
—

Compared forms

  • Hebrewשׁוֹרšōršōr (שׁוֹר) ‘bull, ox’ (Exod 21:28)
  • Ugaritic𐎘𐎗ṯrṯr ‘bull’ (KTU 1.10 iii:35, 1.12 i:30); epithet of El: ṯr ʾil ‘Bull El’
  • Akkadianšūrušūru ‘bull’ (CAD Š/3 370)
  • Arabicثَوْرṯawrṯawr (ثَوْر) ‘bull’

Attestations2 cited

  1. HT 49aTU 4cattle (logographic abbreviation), 4
  2. KH 91TU ¹⁄₁₆cattle (logographic abbreviation)

Commentary

Two complete witnesses: HT 49a .8 TU 4 (GORILA I 93) and KH 91 .3 TU ¹⁄₁₆ (V 45). The fraction on KH 91 marks a measured commodity, not a person. Every other TU is broken or dotted: HT 55a ]TU 1[ (I 107), HT 79+83 ]TU-[·] 3 (I 127), HT 98a ]TU 1 (I 161), HT 126b ]TU 6 (I 217), KH 2 TU-[ (III 23), KH 51 TU[ (III 75), KH 57 ]TU[ (III 79), ZA 12b ]TỤ[ (III 177), PH(?) 31b TU-[ (I 319). TU is the first syllable of ṯawr ‘bull’, √ṯ-w-r, writing ṯu as ZU does: Ug. ṯwr /ṯōru/ < *ṯawru ‘bull’ (Huehnergard 2012, 42), BH šōr ‘bull, ox’, with ṯ > š. See I-ZU-RI-NI-TA.

On the 3D inscriptions

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

Linear A Lexicon