God or goddess · Semitic
KI-RI-SI
Kiriš, the god of the Amorite names, as oil recipient; rivals Hurrian Kiriš and a personal name
- Reading
- Kiriš
- Type
- God or goddess Speculative
- Language
- Semitic Speculative
- Sites
- Tylissos
- Attestations
- 1
- Lexicon
- KI-RI-SI
Commentary
Amorite DN Kiriš (Mari: ARM XIV 106:18, ARM XIII 8:19; Nakata 1995: 7 name types; seal of Iluna-Kiriš). Not Elamite Kiririša. Rival: Hurrian kir + -š (Gelb 1944: 113). TY3b KI-RI-SI OLE+MI 6.
Compared forms
From the lexicon entry KI-RI-SI.
- AmoriteGelb AS 21 glossary ‘Kiriš, Kirišu, DN’ (root KRS); ʾAwij-Kiriš A-WI-KI-RI-IŠ (no. 563; ARM XIV 106:18) and Iluna-Kiriš (no. 2556; ARM XIII 8:19 = LAPO 16 no. 104), Mari, Zimri-Lim era. Kiri(š) in 2 women’s and 5 men’s name types (Nakata 1995, Orient 30–31, charts pp. 251–252); seal of Iluna-Kiriš, servant of Zimri-Lim (Topçuoğlu 2016 no. 251 = Otto 2000 fig. 435)
- Linear Bqe-ra-si-ja (KN Fp 1+31, 5, 6, 13, 14, 48; fem. dat., oil offerings beside pa-si-te-o-i), masc. qe-ra-si-jo (KN Fp 16.2): comparandum, not identity (KI/QE, RI/RA)
- HurrianGelb 1944 (Hurrians and Subarians, 113) parses Ur III Pudum-kiriš as Hurrian kir + -š; Karana ki-ri-šu Kirišu, in Monti’s Hurrian list (Monti 2017, 390)
Outside the corpus
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