Personal name · Aegean substrate

RU-SA

personal name; compare Egyptian rw-sȝ, one of the 'names of Crete' on BM EA 5647; rival Egyptian Rs 'he who is awake'

Reading
Rusa
Type
Personal name Speculative
Language
Aegean substrate Speculative
Sites
Haghia Triada
Attestations
1
Lexicon
RU-SA

Commentary

Egyptian rw-sȝ, one of seven ‘names of Crete’ on BM EA 5647 (Dautais & Gabolde 2025, 14–15); Linear B ru-si (KN Ak 634, L 588.1). Rival: Egyptian Rs ‘he who is awake’ (Vercoutter 1956, 45, 48).

Compared forms

From the lexicon entry RU-SA.

  • Egyptianrw-sȝ, the seventh of the ‘names of Crete’ on the writing board BM EA 5647, r. I 7 (Dautais and Gabolde 2025, 14–15); rs ‘(he) who is awake’, late 12th–18th Dynasty (PNM v6, personal_names_id 142607501; Ranke I, 226.18; II, 303.1)
Linear A Lexicon