Title · Semitic
*28B-NU-MA-RE
wine-lords, wine-stewards (personnel category)
- Reading
- yinumare
- Type
- Title Candidate
- Language
- Semitic Candidate
- Sites
- Zakros
- Attestations
- 3
- Lexicon
- JI-NU-MA-RE
Commentary
Read JI-NU-MA-RE (yinumare) with *28B = /yi/ (0.5); the alternate WE gives wēnu-mārē. Autopsy of ZA 5b and ZA 15a confirms the sign sequence.
Compared forms
From the lexicon entry JI-NU-MA-RE.
- Hebrewיַיִןyayinyayin (יַיִן) ‘wine’ + mārē plural of ‘lord’
- Ugaritic𐎊𐎐ynyn ‘wine’
- Akkadianmārumāru ‘son/lord’, plural mārē/mārū