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Ugaritic
ḥmr - red, reddish
(DUL 364)
not attested outside hippiatric texts (e.g. 1.85:17), where it is used as an attribute of
ˀarγn/ˀirγn
, denoting some kind of materia medica. Its interpretation as “red” (e.g. Cohen–Sivan 1983:31‒32) is arbitrary (Kogan 2015: 261)