# TI-MA-RU-WI-TE (Tīmar-luwwīt)

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

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

- Reading: Tīmar-luwwīt
- 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: Pyrgos
- Lexicon: [TI-MA-RU-WI-TE](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/TI-MA-RU-WI-TE/index.md>)

## 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.

## Attestations

- [PYR 1](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/PYR1/index.md>)

## References

- 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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