VIN+RA

spiced wine (Hebrew yayin hāreqaḥ); rival raḥṣu 'washed wine'

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Reading
raqḥ
Confidence
Candidate
Root
*rVḳVḥ- ‘to mix aromatics, compound ointment’ 1…
Kind
Commodity
Language
Semitic
Rank
—

Compared forms

  • Hebrewyayin hāreqaḥyayin hāreqaḥ ‘spiced wine’, Song 8:2 (HALOT 409); reqaḥ ‘spice mixture’ (HALOT 1290)
  • Ugaritic𐎗𐎖𐎈rqḥrqḥ (II) ‘perfume, ointment’ (DULAT 735)
  • Akkadianruqqûruqqû adj. ‘perfumed (oil)’ (CAD R 420)

Attestations4 cited

  1. CR Zg 3VIN ≈ NI ≈ VIN+RARA-qualified wine; exact variety unknown
  2. KE Zb 5VIN+RA
  3. ZA 15bVIN+RA 17
  4. ZA 6bVIN+RA 40

Commentary

VIN with the adjunct RA: KE Zb 5, ZA 15b, ZA 6b and the doubtful seal CR Zg 3. Beside plain VIN on ZA 15b (KU-RO VIN 78, VIN+RA 17) it is a distinct wine category, and ZA 6b sets VIN+RA 40 against VIN+KA 10. RA writes the ra- of raqḥ ‘spiced’, Hebrew yayin hāreqaḥ ‘spiced wine’ (Song 8:2; HALOT 409): the wine of the r-q-ḥ series with OLE+RI riqqu ‘perfumed oil’, *401 ruqqû and RO-QA rōqaḥ. Rival: raḥṣu ‘washed, filtered’ (√r-ḥ-ṣ; Ug. rḥṣ, Heb. rāḥaṣ). Four attestations.

On the 3D inscriptions

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

Linear A Lexicon