# MA-RI (Mari)

> Mari (place name; Linear B ma-ri); rival Mari on the Euphrates

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

- Reading: Mari
- Type: Place; confidence Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once.
- Language: Aegean substrate; confidence Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once.
- Sites: Haghia Triada
- Lexicon: [MA-RI](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/MA-RI/index.md>)

## Commentary

HT 128a .4, a recipient in a barley list, its GRA+KU 6 carried to face b (GORILA I 221). Linear B ma-ri, a place at Knossos, KN Dl 947.B, 948.B (DMic I 425). Rival: Mari on the Euphrates (Cline 2014, 19). See the lexicon entry.

## Attestations

- [HT 128a](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT128a/index.md>)

## References

- DMic I: Aura Jorro, Francisco, Diccionario Micénico, vol. I (CSIC 1985). 
- Cline, Eric H. (2014), 1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed. Turning Points in Ancient History,Princeton University Press
- 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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