Title · Semitic

RO-KE

perfumer (title); rival rōkēl 'trader, merchant'

Reading
rōqēaḥ
Type
Title Speculative
Language
Semitic Speculative
Sites
Haghia Triada
Attestations
1
Lexicon
RO-KE

Commentary

HT 98a .4 RO-KE ½, in a list of fractional issues (GORILA I 161). Ugarit rqḥ ‘perfumer’ (DULAT 734). See the lexicon entry.

Compared forms

From the lexicon entry RO-KE.

  • Eblaiterāqiḥrāqiḥ ‘oil-perfumer’, lexical list (Sanmartín GlOS 2, 165)
  • Ugaritic𐎗𐎖𐎈rqḥrqḥ (I) ‘perfumer’ (DULAT 734)
  • Hebrew (rival)rōkēlrōkēl ‘trader’: hā-rōkĕlîm beside the goldsmiths (Neh 3:31–32); ʾabqat rôkēl ‘the merchant’s powders’ (Song 3:6)
Linear A Lexicon