# \*47-NU-RA-JA (Šū-nūraya)

> personal name, 'He is light'; rival mənōrāya 'lampstand (man)'

A name in the Linear A onomasticon. The reading is a proposal and carries its tier.

- Reading: Šū-nūraya
- Type: Personal name; confidence Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once.
- Language: Semitic; confidence Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once.
- Sites: Haghia Triada
- Lexicon: [\*47-NU-RA-JA](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/*47-NU-RA-JA/index.md>)

## Commentary

Šū-nūraya 'He is light', as Ebla su-nu-ri₂ šū-nūrī (Pagan 1998, row 4282) and Ugaritic nu-ri-ia (DULAT 634); on the same palimpsest as *301-U-RA naura.

## Attestations

- [HT 115a](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT115a/index.md>)

## References

- Pagan, Joseph M. (1998), Ebla Electronic Corpus: Onomastic Data Base. Undena Publications (1998 disk); HTML edition by G. Buccellati, IIMAS / Cybernetica Mesopotamica (2012)
- 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

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