# MA-I-MI (mayimi)

> water(-men), water-drawers of the sanctuary; rival Anatolian 'grown-ups'

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

- Reading: mayimi
- 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: [MA-I-MI](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/MA-I-MI/index.md>)

## Commentary

HT 89 MA-I-MI 24, third of five classes under A-SA-RA₂ · *307, KU-RO 87: mayimi 'water' (DULAT 529), the sanctuary's water-drawers, as the Gibeonites drew water for the altar (Josh 9:27). Rival: Anatolian 'grown-ups' (Uchitel 2006, 75). See the lexicon entry. One witness.

## Attestations

- [HT 89](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT89/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
- Uchitel, Alexander (2006), Listing by Age and Occupation in Minoan Linear A. Kadmos,45,De Gruyter (volume dated 2006, issued 2007),73–81

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