Re: The Merneptah farce
- From: Italo <olati3@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 24 May 2008 14:42:56 +0200
Dragonblaze wrote:
On May 23, 7:05 pm, Italo <ola...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Dragonblaze wrote:
[snip]
And then there is uru- in 'Urusalim'.
I wonder if such loans may've arrived via Amorite.
Amorite nomads seem to've been in south Mesopotamia already
at the start of the 2nd millennium.
Uru in that is how the Cuneiform text would have tried to deal with
jeru-. The other option would have been i-e-eru-sa-li-im-mu, which is
more diffiult to write in cuneiform.
Dragomblaze
In the execration texts the name also has no initial j-,
"3wš3mm" (rushalimim?).
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