# KA-JU (kallû)

> messenger, courier (title)

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

- Reading: kallû
- Type: Title; 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: [KA-JU](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/KA-JU/index.md>)

## Commentary

HT 88 .4 KA-JU 1, in the one-unit roster after KI-RO (GORILA I 139). Ugarit issues wine to the courier, yn ḥsp l ql (KTU 4.213:27). See the lexicon entry.

## Attestations

- [HT 88](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT88/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
- GORILA I: Godart, Louis; Olivier, Jean-Pierre (1976), Recueil des inscriptions en linéaire A, volume 1: Tablettes éditées avant 1970 (GORILA I). École française d'Athènes (Études crétoises XXI, 1); Librairie orientaliste Paul Geuthner, Paris

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