Personal name · Semitic

KE-KI-RU

personal name, 'Disk, Round loaf'

Reading: Kikkaru
Type: Personal name Speculative
Language: Semitic Speculative
Sites: Haghia Triada
Attestations: 1
Lexicon: KE-KI-RU

Commentary

One unit in the HT94b list under KI-RO, with TU-MA, PA-TA-NE, DE-DI and SA-RU; KU-RO 5. Akk. kakkaru ‘metal disk; round loaf’ (CAD K 49); Amorite personal name KAKKAR-I (Gelb AS 21 no. 3957).

Compared forms

From the lexicon entry KE-KI-RU.

AmoriteKAKKAR-I (KA-KA-RI), personal name (Gelb 1980, AS 21, no. 3957)
Akkadiankakkarukakkaru ‘metal disk (a talent); round loaf’ (CAD K 49)
Hebrewkikkārkikkār ‘round loaf; talent’ (Exod 29:23)