# U-JU (ʿūlū)

> burnt offering

A Linear A word in the Linear A Lexicon. The reading is a proposal and carries its tier.

- Reading: ʿūlū
- Confidence: Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once.
- Root: [\*ʕōl-at-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/2707/index.md>) 'burnt offering, holocaust'
- Kind: Ritual
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: U (u) · JU (ju)

## Compared forms

- Hebrew: עוֹלָה *ʿōlâ* — ʿōlâ (עוֹלָה) 'burnt offering' (Lev 1)
- Akkadian: *elû* — elû 'to go up'
- Ugaritic: 𐎓𐎍𐎊 *ʿly* — ʿly 'to go up'
- Phoenician: *Neo-Punic ʿlt* — Neo-Punic ʿlt 'whole burnt offering' (KAI 159.7/8; Krahmalkov 374)

## Attestations

- [ZA 7a](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/ZA7a/index.md>): U-JU 5 — burnt offering

## Commentary

ZA 7a, a tablet: U-JU 5 · A-RA-TU 4 · A-RE-TU-MI[, a counted list. Heb. ʿōlâ 'burnt offering' (Lev 1:3), from √ʿ-l-h 'go up' (PS *ʕōl-at-); Neo-Punic ʿlt 'whole burnt offering' (KAI 159.7/8; Krahmalkov 2000, 374); the -t unwritten, as in *21F-*118 ḥiṭṭa. DU-JU[ (ZA 22, a tablet, beside OVISf) is a candidate from the same root.

## References

- Reading: di Mino
- KAI: Donner, Herbert; Röllig, Wolfgang (2002), Kanaanäische und aramäische Inschriften. Band 1. Harrassowitz
- Krahmalkov: Krahmalkov, Charles R. (2000), A Phoenician-Punic Dictionary. Peeters (Leuven)

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Cite as: di Mino, Tom. 2026. Linear A Lexicon. Plasma AI. https://linear-a.ai/. Data: kaphtor, commit add28e94.