*47

Status: speculative. A speculative value.

Phonetic value

FieldValue
Value/so/
Alternates/mo/, /do/
Linear BB 47, value None
Linear B noteNo accepted value; Linear B keeps *47 apart from B 15 mo.
Neutralization classnone

Alternate values

ValueEvidence
/mo/In *47-KU-NA, mo gives the rival mōgun- 'regalement, gift', /m-g-n/ 'to wine and dine, regale' (DULAT 525)
/do/*47-KU-NA Dagan (DULAT 265), the shape of DA-KU-NA (HT103)

Forms cited for the value

  • *47-KU-NA (ZA15a, heading of a wine issue) = sōkina 'prefect': Canaanite su₂-ki-na, glossed in EA 362 (ORACC aemw/amarna P270873); Ug. śkn 'prefect, governor; administrator' (DULAT 746); sākinu (CAD S 76); Heb. sōkēn (HALOT 755)

Note

Speculative. Ten tokens; two stand alone on MA 1 (a, b) without a numeral. *47-KU-NA, heading the ZA 15a wine issue, is sōkina 'prefect', with the vowels of the Canaanite gloss su₂-ki-na (EA 362) and the ō of the Canaanite shift. Linear A writes no other so; *324 claims it only at Speculative 0.30. *47-NU-RA-JA (HT 115a) is a person, Šū-nūraya 'He is light': so writes šū, as Ebla su-nu-ri₂ šū-nūrī (Pagan 1998, row 4282), with a vowel mismatch only. mo, from the AB15 gap, reads *47-KU-NA as mōgun- 'regalement'; do reads it as Dagan. so also reads PA₃-SI-*47 (MIL Zb 1) ba-si-so, basīsa 'meal worked with oil' (Lane 201). Linear B keeps *47 apart from *15 mo. HT 127a *304+PA-DA-*47-KU is unsegmented. Co-occurrence with MA, MI, ME and MU excludes those four values only.

Lexicon words written with this sign

WordProposed readingConfidence
*47-KU-NAsōkinaSpeculative
*47-NU-RA-JAŠū-nūrayaSpeculative
PA₃-SI-*47basīsaCandidate
QA-MI-*47-NA-RAqāmī šū-nāraSpeculative

Updated 24 October 2026

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