# KE-KI-RU (Kikkaru)

> personal name, 'Disk, Round loaf'

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

- Reading: Kikkaru
- 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: Haghia Triada
- Lexicon: [KE-KI-RU](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/KE-KI-RU/index.md>)

## 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).

## Attestations

- [HT 94b](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT94b/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 K: Oriental Institute (A. Leo Oppenheim and Erica Reiner, eds.) (1971), The Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, vol. 8, K. The Oriental Institute, Chicago; J. J. Augustin, Glückstadt

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