# VIR+\*307 (VIR-dubur)

> sanctuary personnel

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

- Reading: VIR-dubur
- Confidence: Probable. Fits the word’s contexts and has a close external comparison, without an independent control.
- Root: [\*dVb(V)r-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/151/index.md>) 'back, hind part' 1, 'descendants' 2
- Kind: Personnel
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: VIR · \*307
- Rank: #22 of the top 100

## Compared forms

- Hebrew: דְּבִיר *dəvîr* — dəvîr (דְּבִיר) 'inner sanctuary' (1 Kgs 6:5)
- Egyptian: group writing d-bi₄-r dabīr 'naos, inner sanctuary' (GlOS 1, 140, after Hoch, SWET 376, no. 561)

## Attestations

- [KH 9](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/KH9/index.md>): A-SI-SU-PO-A VIR+\*307
- [KH 14](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/KH14/index.md>): VIR+\*307 2
- [KH 19](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/KH19/index.md>): \*306-VIR+\*307 13

## 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).

## Same root

- [TI-NI-TA \*307](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/TI-NI-TA~20*307/index.md>) (Tinitu Dubur)
- [DU-PU₂-RE](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/DU-PU~E2~82~82-RE/index.md>) (dubur)
- [A-DU \*307+\*307](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/A-DU~20*307~2B*307/index.md>) (Addu dubur-dubur)
- [DU-\*314-RE](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/DU-*314-RE/index.md>) (dubur)
- [OLE-\*307](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/OLE-*307/index.md>) (OLE-dubur)

## References

- Reading: di Mino; HALOT; GlOS 1
- 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
- GlOS 1: Sanmartín, Joaquín (2019), A Glossary of Old Syrian, Volume 1: ʔ – ḳ. Languages of the Ancient Near East 8/1,Eisenbrauns (Pennsylvania State University Press), University Park

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