Gentilic · Semitic
*363-KE-MA-SE
the one of Šakmu (Shechem) (gentilic in -SE on the toponym)
- Reading
- Šakma-se
- Type
- Gentilic Speculative
- Language
- Semitic Speculative
- Sites
- Zakros
- Attestations
- 1
- Lexicon
- *363-KE-MA-SE
Commentary
ZA 15a .7 *363-KE-MA-SE 5, the last entry of a wine issue (GORILA III 183). *363 at its proposed value SO: Šakmu (Shechem) with the gentilic -SE of RU-MA-TA-SE. See the lexicon entry.
Compared forms
From the lexicon entry *363-KE-MA-SE.
- Hebrewšǝkemšǝkem ‘shoulder, mountain ridge’; Šǝkem Shechem, gentilic haš-šikmî (Num 26:31)
- Ugaritic𐎘𐎋𐎎ṯkmṯkm ‘shoulder’ > ‘top’ (DULAT 890)
- AmarnaKUR ša-ak-miKUR ša-ak-mi ‘the land of Šakmu’, Shechem (EA 289)
- AmoriteŠKM: Šākim, DN (Gelb 1980, 33); ŠAKIM-UM, ŠA-KI-MU-UM (no. 5804)
- Egyptianskmimi, Shechem, Execration Texts, Brussels E6 (Streit 2017, 64–65)