# QE-DE-MI-NU (Qēdmīnu)

> personal name, 'Easterner, Ancient one'

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

- Reading: Qēdmīnu
- 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: Malia
- Lexicon: [QE-DE-MI-NU](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/QE-DE-MI-NU/index.md>)

## Commentary

Malia bar MA 1a/1b, after *47 on both faces; cf. KA-DU-MA-NE (HT 29). Ug. personal name Qdmn (Astour 1965, 152); Heb. qadmōnî (Gen 15:19).

## Attestations

- [MA 1a](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/MA1a/index.md>)
- [MA 1b](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/MA1b/index.md>)

## References

- Astour, Michael C. (1965), Hellenosemitica: An Ethnic and Cultural Study in West Semitic Impact on Mycenaean Greece. Brill

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