# KN Zf 31 A Linear A inscription carved again in 3D: silver hair pin from Knossos. - Object: Silver hair pin - Site: Knossos - Edition: GORILA IV, 154–155 ## Text 1. …-SI-… …-SI-ZA-NE-\*310 [DA-DU-MI-NE]() [QA-MI-\*47-NA-RA]() [A-WA-PI]() [TE-SU-DE-SE-KE-I]() 2. [A-DA-RA]() [TI-DI-TE-QA-TI]() [TA-SA-ZA]() [TA-TE-I-KE-ZA-RE]() ## Proposed translation ]SI[ ]SI-ZA-NE-*310, Dādu-Mīnō, 'Beloved of Minos', who stands, he is fire, ʾAwpiʿ, 'he shone forth': she serves; give him drink! The pin: fix it, you have fastened it. She will remember, by that with which one curls the hair. ## Lexicon entries here - [DA-DU-MI-NE]() (dādu-Mīnō): Beloved of Minos (compound theophoric name). Speculative. - [QA-MI-\*47-NA-RA]() (qāmī šū-nāra): personal name, 'who stands: He is fire'. Speculative. - [A-WA-PI]() (ʾawpiʿ): personal name, 'he shone forth' (causative of w-p-ʿ 'be brilliant'). Speculative. - [TE-SU-DE-SE-KE-I]() (tesʾad šeqī): she serves; give (him) drink! Speculative. - [A-DA-RA]() (ʾadra): the fibula, the pin; rivals ʾAdara 'the Strong One' (epithet), ʾaddart- 'mantle'. Speculative. - [TI-DI-TE-QA-TI]() (tidī teqaʿti): 'fix it, you have fastened it' (of the pin); rival Tidiʿ-Teqaʿt, personal name 'Teqaʿt knows', after one of the Kotharat. Speculative. - [TA-SA-ZA]() (taḫsaz): she remembers. Speculative. - [TA-TE-I-KE-ZA-RE]() (ṯāt ʾikezzer): with which one curls (the hair). Speculative. ## Remarks The longest multi-word inscription on metal in Linear A: nine words in two lines incised along the shaft of a silver hair pin, eight of them found nowhere else. Line 1 begins on the hook, whose bend is corroded: ]SI[ stands alone on the hook arm, about three signs are lost after it, and the SI of ]SI-ZA-NE-*310 survives as a trace. KE in the last word is doubtful, and line 2 breaks off after it. The original has a row of crocus blossoms on the reverse, which the stand-in leaves out; its length and the curve of its hook are not taken from the original. 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. --- Page: https://linear-a.ai/inscriptions/tpl-kn-zf-31/ 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.