# A-RU-RA (ʾArura)

> place name, heading the HT 11a list under KU-RO 10

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

- Reading: ʾArura
- Type: Place; 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: [A-RU-RA](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/A-RU-RA/index.md>)

## Commentary

Reading from the lexicon (di Mino). Heads HT 11a: A-RU-RA ]3, KA-RO-NA 2, *322-RI 1, KU-RO 10. Ugaritic ảrr, the town ʾArruwa on the Siyannu border, whose soldiers head a list (KTU 4.683:1; DULAT 102); {uru}a-ru-ra (RGTC 7/3, citing RIMA 2 101.1 i 47).

## Attestations

- [HT 11a](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT11a/index.md>)

## References

- KTU: Dietrich, Manfried; Loretz, Oswald; Sanmartín, Joaquín (2013), Die keilalphabetischen Texte aus Ugarit, Ras Ibn Hani und anderen Orten / The Cuneiform Alphabetic Texts from Ugarit, Ras Ibn Hani and Other Places (KTU³). Ugarit-Verlag, Münster (Alter Orient und Altes Testament 360/1); ISBN 978-3-86835-014-2
- 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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