JOURNAL OF EURASIAN STUDIES

October-December 2009 JOURNAL OF EURASIAN STUDIES Volume I., Issue 4.
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S/he asks for items/trades people as listed on HT 88. HT 93 b. is an unintelligible fragment. On HT 94, the
context, a list of injuries makes it unambiguous that here:
KI-RO : KáR : damage, loss, harm, injury
"owed" (Hooker 1975; Duhoux 1989, 79): HT 30.4, 123a; HT 118; cf. HT 49: a.1-7 totals
10; if KI 1, then 9, which is what a.8 records (5+4), with the KI 1 repeated
On HT 30 KI-RO = KI-B frac , on HT 123 KI-RO is what the olive-pickers are getting for picking the olives.
From their side it is what they asks (= kér) for, from the employers side it is owed to the pickers, it is
CReDiT (= KéReTeT, kérelem), the picker is a creditor (= kérő) till s/he is paid. See above for KI.
KU-PA, possibly a transaction term on ZA 11a.5 (Schoep 1994-5, 67, n. 47); cf. HT 110.2
KU-PA : KuPa : CuP, on HT We 1020 and KH 5 also.
KU-RO = "total" (Younger 2003)
secure: HT 9.a & b, 11.b, 13, 25.b2-4, 85.a, 88.4-6, 89.4, 94.a3 & b1-4, 104, 117.a1-6, HT 118
(with 5 having been omitted), 122?, 123.a, 127.b4-7; ZA 1?, 15, 17; cf. HT 116.
with restorations: HT 27a.1-7, 100, 102
rounded off: HT 119
also mentioned: HT 39.5, 40.3, 46a.2
Perhaps the word is related to Semitic kl. "whole". (see Hooker 1975) or the Greek 'kolon', with
the often Linear A 'u' substrituting for Linear B 'o', and thus meaning 'sum')
KU-RO : KöR, (baráti) kör, együvé tartozó dolgok; KeRet, KeRekítés, egybekötve, összesen : ring, cirkle
(of friends), things belonging together; available (funds), rounding, bind together, altogether
Total as the sum of identical things is out of question as it is explicitly stated on HT 13, where the “total”
number is named as FÉLE (= kind), or on HT 85 as the number of different things needed to erect a fence.
PO-TO-KU-RO = "grand total" (Palmer 1995): HT 122.b6 (off by one?), 131.4 (with restoration)
[JGY: if KU-RO is Greek {see above}, could PO-TO-KU-RO be some kind of "power total"?]
PO-TO-KU-RO : PóT-KeRet : additional, supplementary, extra, substitute availability
HT 122 is exact in this sense of the word, when interpreted properly.
To conclude: the long list of “transaction terms” on Younger’s Homepage I have shortened significantly
to include, here above, only the ones we have some agreement in interpreting. By doing so, for the
remaining list of A-DU, DA-I, E-*85, KI-RA/KI-RO/KA-I-RO, KI, KU-RO and PO-TO-KU-RO, we have
proven both
• “strictly internally” by J.G. Younger, in some cases spot on, in others to related words or at least to
the conceptual class, and
• etymologically, by finding their equivalent in the language of the little green men and checking
their contextual compliance.
As you could already noticed, they not exactly transaction words, as we would define them today,
nevertheless, one can see in those words the roots of the vocabulary used by our administrators.
The conclusions drawn from HT 95 & HT 86 about A-DU, DA-DU-MA-TA & A-KA-RU are the extreme
wilderness, where the strictly internal method unchecked, can lead serious scholars of best intentions.
Tablet HT 95 is about kid-show, side a. is listing the number of maximum points goats/kids (DA-DU-
MA-TA : GiDa/GöDe-MuTó : (GoaT-)KiD-proMoTion) can get on the show for particular features,
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