# VIN+RA (raqḥ)

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

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

- Reading: raqḥ
- Confidence: Candidate. A comparison worth testing; the evidence is thin or the word is rare.
- Root: [\*rVḳVḥ-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/S15/index.md>) 'to mix aromatics, compound ointment' 1, 'perfumer, ointment-mixer' 2
- Kind: Commodity
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: VIN · RA (ra)

## Compared forms

- Hebrew: *yayin hāreqaḥ* — yayin hāreqaḥ 'spiced wine', Song 8:2 (HALOT 409); reqaḥ 'spice mixture' (HALOT 1290)
- Ugaritic: 𐎗𐎖𐎈 *rqḥ* — rqḥ (II) 'perfume, ointment' (DULAT 735)
- Akkadian: *ruqqû* — ruqqû adj. 'perfumed (oil)' (CAD R 420)

## Attestations

- [CR Zg 3](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/CRZg3/index.md>): VIN ≈ NI ≈ VIN+RA — RA-qualified wine; exact variety unknown
- [KE Zb 5](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/KEZb5/index.md>): VIN+RA
- [ZA 15b](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/ZA15b/index.md>): VIN+RA 17
- [ZA 6b](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/ZA6b/index.md>): VIN+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.

## Same root

- [\*401](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/*401/index.md>) (ruqqû)
- [\*401+RU](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/*401~2BRU/index.md>)
- [OLE+RI](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/OLE~2BRI/index.md>) (riqqu)
- [RO-KE](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/RO-KE/index.md>) (rōqēaḥ)
- [RO-QA](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/RO-QA/index.md>) (rōqaḥ)

## References

- Reading: di Mino
- 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
- DULAT: del Olmo Lete, Gregorio; Sanmartín, Joaquín (2015), A Dictionary of the Ugaritic Language in the Alphabetic Tradition. Brill, Leiden/Boston (Handbook of Oriental Studies 1/112); Third Revised Edition, tr. and ed. Wilfred G.E. Watson; 2 parts
- CAD R: Oriental Institute (Erica Reiner and Martha T. Roth, eds.) (1999), The Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, vol. 14, R. The Oriental Institute, Chicago

---

Page: https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/VIN~2BRA/
Licence: CC BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Cite as: di Mino, Tom. 2026. Linear A Lexicon. Plasma AI. https://linear-a.ai/. Data: kaphtor, commit add28e94.