# E > Linear A logogram E, speculative: butter, ghee, cream (dairy fat). A page of the Linear A Lexicon's research wiki, in [Wiki]() › [Kaphtor Lexicon]() › [Signs]() › [Logograms](). Updated 2026-10-24. **Status: speculative.** A speculative value. ## Logogram | Field | Value | |---|---| | Gloss | butter, ghee, cream (dairy fat) | | Commodity | ḥemʾat | ### Note Pure vowel sign — no consonant skeleton, so standard root-matching inapplicable. Identified via distributional analysis: 80% numeral-following (8/10), 3 sites (HT, KN, ZA), late position in oil-heavy commodity sequences. Cross-commodity modifier (CYP+E, OLE+E, GRA+E) consistent with dairy fat as parallel fat category to olive oil. Cognate attested across all major Semitic branches. Deut 32:14 ḥemʾat bāqār is the exact construct form this logogram would abbreviate. Clarified butter (ghee) is the natural stored dairy commodity in warm-climate palace economies. ## Also in syllabic [E]() has a syllabic record. ## Lexicon words written with this sign | Word | Proposed reading | Confidence | |---|---|---| | A-KI-PI-E-TE | Akipe-te | Speculative | | A-TA-I-\*301-WA-E | ʾatainawē | Confirmed | | E | ḥemʾat | Candidate | | E-NA-SI | ʾenāš | Candidate | | JA-SI-E | yašīʿ-ē | Candidate | | PA₃-E | bē | Candidate | | PI-RU-E-JU | Pirʾu-ʾēlu | Speculative | | QE-SI-ZU-E | qīši ṯuʿē | Speculative | | RO-E | rōʿē | Speculative | | SA-MI-DA-E | samidē | Candidate | ## Linked from - [Logograms]() - [E]() --- Page: https://linear-a.ai/wiki/lexicon/signs/logograms/E/ Licence: CC BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Cite as: di Mino, Tom. 2026. Linear A Lexicon. Plasma AI. https://linear-a.ai/. Data: kaphtor, commit add28e94.