# PI-RU-E-JU (Pirʾu-ʾēlu)

> personal name, 'Offspring of El'; rival 'Fruit of El'

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

- Reading: Pirʾu-ʾēlu
- Type: Personal name; 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: Phaistos
- Lexicon: [PI-RU-E-JU](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/PI-RU-E-JU/index.md>)

## Commentary

PH 2 .3, one of three entries of 60 under A-SE-TU-*21F (GORILA I 288–289). Pirʾu-ʾēlu 'Offspring of El': Pir-ḫi-ì-lí-šu 'Offspring-of-His-God' (CAD P 418). Rival: pir- 'fruit'. One witness.

## Attestations

- [PH 2](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/PH2/index.md>)

## References

- CAD P: Oriental Institute (Martha T. Roth, ed.) (2005), The Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, vol. 12, P. The Oriental Institute, Chicago
- 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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