*23M

Status: proposed. A proposed value.

Evidence: cattle holds (6 of 6 integers; Linear B BOS); Akkadian mūru is 'foal; calf'

Logogram

Field	Value
Gloss	young bull, head of cattle (live livestock)
Commodity	BOSm
Semitic term	mūru (PS muhr- / *mVrVʔ- √m-r-ʾ), Akkadian mūru 'foal; calf' (OAkk. on, CAD M2 229), mīru 'young bull' (OB-SB, CAD M2 109), Ugaritic mru, Hebrew mǝrīʾ 'fatted steer'

Note

Live head-count logogram: whole numbers only (1-5), never fractions. Complementary to TU = ṯawr 'cattle products' (fractional quantities: 1/16, 1/4, 3/4). Zero tablet overlap between *23M and TU. MU = /mu/ spells mūru's /ū/; mūru keeps its calf sense through Middle and Neo-Assyrian (CAD M2 229–30), so no equine/bovine split is needed. The MU (AB23) base sign abbreviates the onset syllable /mu/ of *mūru.

Lexicon words written with this sign

Word	Proposed reading	Confidence
*23M	mūru	Probable

Updated 24 October 2026

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