# RU-JA (Ruya)

> personal name; Ugaritic rwy

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

- Reading: Ruya
- 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: Knossos
- Lexicon: [RU-JA-TA-DI](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/RU-JA-TA-DI/index.md>)

## Commentary

KN Wc 26, a roundel, RU-JA on face a and NI-PI nīb 'fruit' on face b (GORILA II 85): Ruya, the Ugaritic PN rwy (DULAT 738), the name that opens RU-JA-TA-DI Ruya-dādī. See the lexicon entry RU-JA-TA-DI.

## Attestations

- [KN Wc 26](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/KNWc26/index.md>)

## References

- DULAT: del Olmo Lete, Gregorio; Sanmartín, Joaquín (2015), A Dictionary of the Ugaritic Language in the Alphabetic Tradition. Brill, Leiden/Boston (Handbook of Oriental Studies 1/112); Third Revised Edition, tr. and ed. Wilfred G.E. Watson; 2 parts
- GORILA II: Godart, Louis; Olivier, Jean-Pierre (1979), Recueil des inscriptions en linéaire A, volume 2: Nodules, scellés et rondelles édités avant 1970 (GORILA II). École française d'Athènes (Études crétoises XXI, 2); Librairie orientaliste Paul Geuthner, Paris

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