# I-JA-PA-ME (yabame)

> brother-in-law (kin title); I-JA-PA-ME · TA-TA 'the brother-in-law of Tatta'; rival ybmt 'sister-in-law', Anat's epithet

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

- Reading: yabame
- Type: Title; confidence Candidate. A comparison worth testing; the evidence is thin or the word is rare.
- Language: Semitic; confidence Candidate. A comparison worth testing; the evidence is thin or the word is rare.
- Sites: Khania
- Lexicon: [I-JA-PA-ME](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/I-JA-PA-ME/index.md>)

## Commentary

Reading from the lexicon (di Mino). Tell Rimah ia-ba-mi-ša 'her brother-in-law', Ugaritic ybm (GlOS 2, 341; DULAT 937).

## Attestations

- [KH 7a](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/KH7a/index.md>)

## References

- 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
- GlOS 2: Sanmartín, Joaquín (2024), A Glossary of Old Syrian, Volume 2: l – z. Languages of the Ancient Near East 8/2,Eisenbrauns (Pennsylvania State University Press), University Park

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