# LACH Za 1

A Linear A inscription carved again in 3D: limestone bowl or krater, fragment from Lachish.

- Object: Limestone bowl or krater, fragment
- Site: Lachish

## Text

1. …-MI [RI-DA-U](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/RI-DA-U/index.md>) SE JE

## Proposed translation

[…]-MI(?) · Ridāyu · SE ¾ […]

## Lexicon entries here

- [RI-DA-U](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/RI-DA-U/index.md>) (Ridāyu): Ridāyu 'Helper, Escort' (personal name, hypocoristic). Speculative.

## Remarks

A fragment of a limestone bowl or krater made locally at Tel Lachish (Area D, Level VI), incised right to left and broken at both ends: ]-MI(?) · RI-DA-U · SE ³⁄₄[ (Finkelberg, Uchitel and Ussishkin 1996). SE stands for a commodity or a measure and the last sign is a fraction, probably ³⁄₄, so the text is more likely a label of contents or capacity than a prayer. RILA counts it among the doubtful Linear A inscriptions. The shape of the sherd is the stand-in’s. 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-lach-za-1/
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.