Personal name · Semitic

TI-MA-RU-WI-TE

Timar the Levite (f.), priestess (woman's name and title); rival Tamar + WI-TE

Reading
Tīmar-luwwīt
Type
Personal name Speculative
Language
Semitic Speculative
Sites
Pyrgos
Attestations
1
Lexicon
TI-MA-RU-WI-TE

Commentary

PY R 1 .1–2 TI-MA-RU-WI-TE, a ligature and VIN 90, the only entry (GORILA I 322). Tīmar ‘palm’, final r unwritten, + luwwīt, fem. of luwwī as in DU-RU-WI: name and title, as Minaean lwʾtn S¹lmy ‘the priestess Salmay’ (M 333). Rival: TA-MA-RU Tamar (Gelb no. 6027) + WI-TE.

Compared forms

From the lexicon entry TI-MA-RU-WI-TE.

  • Hebrewתִּמֹרָהtimmōrātimmōrā תִּמֹרָה ‘palm-shaped ornament’ (HALOT 1757), carved with cherubim in Solomon’s temple (1 Kgs 6:29, 32, 35); PN Tamar תָּמָר (Gen 38:6); Lēwî, named by his mother Leah (Gen 29:34)
  • Minaeanlwʾtlwʾt ‘priestess’: lwʾtn S¹lmy ‘the priestess Salmay’, daughter of a priestess (M 333, RES 3357); lwʾtn Mwʾl ‘the priestess Mwʾl’ and her property (M 358, RES 3697), Dedan (DASI)
  • AmoriteTAMAR-U, TA-MA-RU (Gelb 1980 no. 6027)
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