# RU-SA (Rusa)

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

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

- Reading: Rusa
- Type: Personal name; confidence Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once.
- Language: Aegean substrate; confidence Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once.
- Sites: Haghia Triada
- Lexicon: [RU-SA](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/RU-SA/index.md>)

## 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).

## Attestations

- [HT 96a](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT96a/index.md>)

## References

- EA: Moran, William L. (1992), The Amarna Letters. Johns Hopkins University Press
- Dautais, Louis; Gabolde, Marc (2025), “Crossing the Wine-Dark Sea” from Knossos to Memphis: Hellenized Cretans in Egypt in the Mid-Eighteenth Dynasty (BM EA 5647). Journal of Ancient Egyptian Interconnections,47,7–28
- Vercoutter, Jean (1956), L'Égypte et le monde égéen préhellénique: étude critique des sources égyptiennes (du début de la XVIIIe à la fin de la XIXe dynastie) (BdE 22). Institut français d'archéologie orientale, Le Caire

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