# RI-TA-MA (Ritmā)

> personal name, 'broom (bush)'

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

- Reading: Ritmā
- 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: Haghia Triada
- Lexicon: [RI-TA-MA](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/RI-TA-MA/index.md>)

## Commentary

HT 115a .1–2 RỊ-TẠ-MẠ · NU-WI 2, all three signs underdotted (GORILA I 189). Ritmā, √r-t-m 'broom': Hebrew Ritmâ, a wilderness encampment (Num 33:18); Arabian PN rtm (Harding 1971, 269). See the lexicon entry.

## Attestations

- [HT 115a](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT115a/index.md>)

## References

- Harding, G. Lankester (1971), An Index and Concordance of Pre-Islamic Arabian Names and Inscriptions. Near and Middle East Series 8,University of Toronto 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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