# CR Zg 4

A Linear A inscription carved again in 3D: steatite reel seal from Crete (findspot unknown).

- Object: Steatite reel seal
- Site: Crete (findspot unknown)
- Original: Metropolitan Museum of Art (CMS XII 96)

## Text

1. [I-DA-DA](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/I-DA-DA/index.md>)
2. [A-RO-TE](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/A-RO-TE/index.md>)

## Proposed translation

O Beloved! // Ḫaluti

## Lexicon entries here

- [I-DA-DA](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/I-DA-DA/index.md>) (dādā): O Beloved!—vocative of the reduplicative divine epithet (with i- prosthesis). Speculative.
- [A-RO-TE](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/A-RO-TE/index.md>) (Ḫaluti): Ḫaluti (woman's name, seal owner); rival ʾālôt 'oaths, curses'. Speculative.

## Remarks

A reel-shaped seal, each of its two faces engraved with a motif above a word: a palm with volutes over I-DA-DA (face a), a lozenge net over A-RO-TE (face b), as the CMS drawing labels them; Younger letters the faces the other way. The words are read from the impression, so on the stone they run right to left, mirrored. Turn the seal over to read face b. Generated stand-in, not a scan: the shape follows the published description, the sign layout is approximate.

## 3D model

Created at Plasma AI. Template model generated in the browser; texts after the project dossier and GORILA. Glyphs: Noto Sans Linear A (OFL), re-cut stroke by stroke.

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Page: https://linear-a.ai/inscriptions/tpl-cr-zg-4/
Licence: CC BY 4.0 for the translations and commentary; the corpus keeps its sources’ terms, SigLA’s records CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
Cite as: di Mino, Tom. 2026. Linear A Lexicon. Plasma AI. https://linear-a.ai/. Data: kaphtor, commit add28e94.
