# A-JA-KU (ʾAyaku)

> personal name ('Where are you?')

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

- Reading: ʾAyaku
- 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: Knossos
- Lexicon: [A-JA-KU](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/A-JA-KU/index.md>)

## Commentary

KN Zf 13, the last four signs of the undivided 19-sign spiral, ending at the centre of the bezel; the start of the word is not marked and KU is underdotted (GORILA IV 152–153). Amorite ʾAjak-u (Gelb 1980, no. 320). Rival: Akk. ajakku, a temple structure (CAD A/1, 224–25).

## Attestations

- [KN Zf 13](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/KNZf13/index.md>)

## References

- AS 21: Gelb, Ignace J. (1980), Computer-aided Analysis of Amorite. Assyriological Studies 21,The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago
- CAD A/1: Oriental Institute (A. Leo Oppenheim, ed.) (1964), The Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, vol. A/1. Oriental Institute, Chicago; J. J. Augustin, Glückstadt
- GORILA IV: Godart, Louis; Olivier, Jean-Pierre (1982), Recueil des inscriptions en linéaire A, volume 4: Autres documents (GORILA IV). École française d'Athènes (Études crétoises XXI, 4); Librairie orientaliste Paul Geuthner, Paris

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