LEXICON OF ORIENTAL WORDS IN ANCIENT GREEK

ἀσοῦρ <Semitic; Early Byzantine period>

👉 ἀσοῦρ – a Phoenician gloss with the meaning of κρατήρ ‘crater, mixing vessel, large bowl’ (Hsch. α 7736; EM 155. 34).

Hsch. α 7736 (= EM 155. 34): ἀσοῦρ· κρατήρ, ὑπὸ Φοινίκων – “asur: crater, (called so) by Phoenicians”.

🅔 A Phoenician word without etymology.