# SA-RE-JU (Šarr-ēlu)

> personal name, 'El is king'; rival Hurrian Šar-elli

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

- Reading: Šarr-ēlu
- 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: [SA-RE-JU](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/SA-RE-JU/index.md>)

## Commentary

HT 20 .4 SA-RE-JU ⅛, in the list under PA-RO-SU beside KU-MA-JU and QE-KU-RE (GORILA I 36–37). Šarr-ēlu 'El is king': ŚARR-A+ʾIL, ŠAR-RA-DINGIR, Alalakh IV (Gelb no. 5846). Rival: Hurrian Šar-elli, syll. šar-e-li (DULAT s.v. ṯryl). One witness.

## Attestations

- [HT 20](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT20/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 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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