# U-SU (ʾUšu)

> man of Ušu (mainland Tyre)—origin-labeled worker

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

- Reading: ʾUšu
- Confidence: Candidate. A comparison worth testing; the evidence is thin or the word is rare.
- Root: ʾUšu (Pre-Greek)
- Kind: Personal name
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: U (u) · SU (su)

## Compared forms

- Akkadian: {uru}U₂-su₂ Usu, Amarna, EA 148:11, 148 r. 30, 149 r. 49, 150 r. 18 (ORACC aemw/amarna)
- Hebrew: Ḥōsâ, a town of Asher by Tyre, wəšāb haggəbûl ḥōsâ 'and the border turned to Hosah' (Josh 19:29; HALOT 337, which sets Akkadian Uzu, Ušu beside it)

## Attestations

- [HT 117a](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT117a/index.md>): U-SU 1 — man of Ušu (origin-labeled worker)

## Commentary

HT 117a: a counted roster item, quantity 1 within KU-RO 10. Amarna Ušu (EA 148, 149, 150), the mainland twin of Tyre, with š written s. The reverse labels personnel by origin (DI-KI-SE 'the Diktaian', HT 117b), and U-DI-MI (ʾUdmī) stands seven lines below: Levantine workers on a Haghia Triada roster, each entered under his town. One attestation.

## In the onomasticon

- [U-SU](<https://linear-a.ai/names/U-SU/index.md>): Place or gentilic, Semitic

## References

- Reading: di Mino
- ORACC: Oracc Steering Committee, Oracc: The Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus. University of Pennsylvania Museum; CC BY-SA 3.0 unless otherwise stated
- EA: Moran, William L. (1992), The Amarna Letters. Johns Hopkins University Press
- HALOT: Koehler, Ludwig; Baumgartner, Walter; Stamm, Johann Jakob; Richardson, M. E. J. (trans. and ed.) (1994), The Hebrew and Aramaic Lexicon of the Old Testament, vols. I–IV. E. J. Brill, Leiden · New York · Köln

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