- Reading
- VIR-dubur
- Confidence
- Probable
- Root
- *dVb(V)r- ‘back, hind part’ 1, ‘descendants’ 2
- Kind
- Personnel
- Language
- Semitic
- Rank
- #22 of the top 100
Compared forms
- Hebrewדְּבִירdəvîrdəvîr (דְּבִיר) ‘inner sanctuary’ (1 Kgs 6:5)
- Egyptiangroup writing d-bi₄-r dabīr ‘naos, inner sanctuary’ (GlOS 1, 140, after Hoch, SWET 376, no. 561)
Attestations3 cited
Commentary
VIR with *307 dubur ‘sanctuary’ (see DU-PU₂-RE): sanctuary personnel, at Khania alone. KH 9 opens A-SI-SU-PO-A · VIR+*307, before NI and CYP entries; KH 14 VIR+*307 2 follows NI ¼ among CYP entries; KH 19 *306-VIR+*307 13 heads OLE+TA ⅓. Heb. dəbîr ‘rear room, holy of holies’ (HALOT 208), Egyptian group writing d-bi₄-r dabīr ‘naos, inner sanctuary’ (GlOS 1, 140).
On the 3D inscriptions
Not written on any of the 82 inscriptions modelled so far.