# VIR+\*313

> a counted class of men, VIR qualified by \*313

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

- Reading: none proposed
- Confidence: Confirmed. The function is fixed inside the corpus (position, arithmetic, commodity signs). The etymology may still be a proposal.
- Kind: Personnel
- Language: Logogram, Logograms
- Signs: VIR+\*313 (*570)
- Rank: #17 of the top 100

## Compared forms

- Akkadian: *raqqu* — raqqu (rāqu) "oil presser, perfume maker" (CAD R 173)
- Hebrew: רֹקֵחַ *rōqēaḥ* — rōqēaḥ (רֹקֵחַ) "perfumer, apothecary" (BDB 955); riqḥāh "spice mixture"
- Ugaritic: 𐎗𐎖𐎈 *rqḥ* — rqḥ (I) "perfumer, druggist" (DULAT 734); Ebla /rāqihum/, ra-gi-um (VE 892, apud DULAT 734)

## Attestations

- [HT 89](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT89/index.md>): VIR+\*313a 13
- [HT 100](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT100/index.md>): VIR+\*313a 16 — personnel category *313a
- [HT 94a](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT94a/index.md>): VIR+\*313b 18
- [HT 127b](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT127b/index.md>): VIR+\*313c 24 — men, a personnel class, 24
- [KH 7a](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/KH7a/index.md>): E-NA-SI VIR+\*313b 10 — men of the *313b class, 10

## Commentary

HT 89, HT 94a, HT 100, HT 127b and KH 7a: VIR marks a human referent, and the counts make VIR+*313 a class of men: on HT 89 VIR+*313a 13 stands in the total 23+22+24+13+5, KU-RO 87, and on HT 100 VIR+*313a 16 is counted in KU-RO 97. Three palaeographic variants (a, b, c) stand in comparable lists. No phonetic complement fixes *313. Rival: *rāqiḥū 'perfumers', √r-q-ḥ: Ug. rqḥ 'perfumer' (DULAT 734), Akk. raqqu 'oil presser, perfume maker' (CAD R 173), Heb. rōqēaḥ 'ointment-mixer' (HALOT 1290), which rests on co-occurrence with aromatics. CYP and the other aromatics are not confined to these tablets, and on HT 89 CYP follows the personnel total, in a separate section.

## References

- Reading: di Mino; Uchitel 2006
- VE: Pettinato, Giovanni (1982), Testi lessicali bilingui della biblioteca L. 2769. Parte 1: Traslitterazione dei testi e ricostruzione del VE. Materiali epigrafici di Ebla 4,Istituto Universitario Orientale
- 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
- Uchitel, Alexander (2006), Listing by Age and Occupation in Minoan Linear A. Kadmos,45,De Gruyter (volume dated 2006, issued 2007),73–81
- BDB: Brown, Francis; Driver, S. R.; Briggs, Charles A. (1907), A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament, with an Appendix Containing the Biblical Aramaic. Houghton Mifflin Company

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