# ME-ZA (massu)

> corvée gang, labour gang (personnel term); the word of MA-ZA

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

- Reading: massu
- Type: Title; confidence Candidate. A comparison worth testing; the evidence is thin or the word is rare.
- Language: Semitic; confidence Candidate. A comparison worth testing; the evidence is thin or the word is rare.
- Sites: Haghia Triada
- Lexicon: [ME-ZA](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/ME-ZA/index.md>)

## Commentary

Massu 'corvée gang', the word of MA-ZA: ME-ZA 3 closes the emmer issues of HT 10a, as Alalakh issues grain to the ma-zi (CAD M/1 327).

## Attestations

- [HT 10a](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT10a/index.md>)
- [HT 85b](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT85b/index.md>)

## References

- CAD M/1: Oriental Institute (A. Leo Oppenheim and Erica Reiner, eds.) (1977), The Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, vol. 10, M, part 1. The Oriental Institute, Chicago

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