Title · Semitic
MA-ZA
corvée workers, labour gang (personnel term)
- Reading
- mazza
- Type
- Title Speculative
- Language
- Semitic Speculative
- Sites
- Zakros
- Attestations
- 1
- Lexicon
- MA-ZA
Commentary
ZA 10b .2–3 MA-ZA 5 (GORILA III 171). Alalakh issues wages to the ma-zi (CAD M/1 327). See the lexicon entry.
Compared forms
From the lexicon entry MA-ZA.
- Akkadianmassumassu ‘corvée worker’: idi LÚ.MEŠ ma-zi ‘wages for the corvée workers’ (Wiseman Alalakh 246:6; CAD M/1 s.v.)
- Hebrewמַסmasmas מַס ‘corvée, labour gang’: wayyaʿal ham-melek šəlōmōh mas ‘King Solomon raised a levy’ (1 Kgs 5:27)