# U-NU-\*21F (Unuḫu)

> (the men of) Unuḫu, a town named in a text from Ugarit (RS 17.251), location unknown

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

- Reading: Unuḫu
- Confidence: Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once.
- Root: Unuḫu (Pre-Greek)
- Kind: Toponym
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: U (u) · NU (nu) · \*21F

## Compared forms

- Akkadian (Ugarit): *ᵘʳᵘÚ-nu-ḫi* — ᵘʳᵘÚ-nu-ḫi 'Unuḫu', LÚ ᵘʳᵘÚ-nu-ḫi 'man of Unuḫu' (RS 17.251 [PRU 4 236f.]:19f.; RGTC 12/2, 324)

## Attestations

- [HT 26a](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT26a/index.md>): U-NU-\*21F 5

## Commentary

HT 26a .3–4 U-NU-*21F 5[, whole and undotted, the numeral broken after (GORILA I 47): the last surviving entry under the cup heading *406VAS+KE · *312-TE-TE, after TA-TI 21 and MI-KI-SE-NA 15; side b counts men (VIR) under the same heading. *21F writes the guttural: U-NU-*21F spells ᵘʳᵘÚ-nu-ḫi, the town of a witness, 'man of Unuḫu', in a legal text from Ugarit (RS 17.251 [PRU 4 236f.]:19f.; RGTC 12/2, 324, location unknown).

## In the onomasticon

- [U-NU-\*21F](<https://linear-a.ai/names/U-NU-*21F/index.md>): Place, Semitic

## References

- Reading: di Mino
- GORILA I: Godart, Louis; Olivier, Jean-Pierre (1976), Recueil des inscriptions en linéaire A, volume 1: Tablettes éditées avant 1970 (GORILA I). École française d'Athènes (Études crétoises XXI, 1); Librairie orientaliste Paul Geuthner, Paris
- RGTC 12/2: Belmonte Marín, Juan Antonio (2001), Die Orts- und Gewässernamen der Texte aus Syrien im 2. Jt. v. Chr.. Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag, Wiesbaden (Répertoire Géographique des Textes Cunéiformes 12/2; Beihefte zum Tübinger Atlas des Vorderen Orients B 7/12/2)

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