# \*21F-\*118 (ḥiṭṭa)

> wheat; rivals ḫaṭṭu 'sceptre', ḥaṯ 'unleavened bread'

A Linear A word in the Linear A Lexicon. The reading is a proposal and carries its tier.

- Reading: ḥiṭṭa
- Confidence: Candidate. A comparison worth testing; the evidence is thin or the word is rare.
- Root: [\*ḥiṭṭ-at-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/2691/index.md>) 'wheat'
- Kind: Commodity
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: \*21F · \*118

## Compared forms

- Ugaritic: 𐎈𐎉𐎚 *ḥṭt* — ḥṭt 'wheat' (DULAT 372)
- Hebrew: *ḥiṭṭâ* — ḥiṭṭâ 'wheat' (HALOT 306)

## Attestations

- [KH 88](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/KH88/index.md>): QA-NU-MA \*21F-\*118 NI 10 — wheat; rivals ḫaṭṭu 'sceptre', ḥaṯ 'unleavened bread'
- [ZA 5a](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/ZA5a/index.md>): \*21F-\*118 VIN-SU — wheat; rivals ḫaṭṭu 'sceptre', ḥaṯ 'unleavened bread'
- [ZA 14](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/ZA14/index.md>): \*21F-\*118 1 — wheat, 1; rivals ḫaṭṭu 'sceptre', ḥaṯ 'unleavened bread'
- [ARKH 2](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/ARKH2/index.md>): ZU-\*301-SE-DE-\*21F-\*118 6

## Commentary

KH 88 QA-NU-MA · *21F-*118 · NI 10, before figs; ZA 5a heads a ration list, *21F-*118 · VIN-SU over KI-NI-MA 7 and O-TA-NI-ZA-SE 6; ZA 14 an entry of 1; ARKH 2 .3–4 ZU-*301 SE-DE *21F-*118 6, ṯannān ṣēd ḥiṭṭa 'the chariot soldiers: provision of wheat', written as one group under SI-DA-TE (GORILA III 6–7). Ug. ḥṭt 'wheat' (DULAT 372), Heb. ḥiṭṭâ (HALOT 306), the final -t unwritten. *21F writes ḥi, as in A-DA-*21F-RI dāhiru. Egyptian group writing does the same with this very word: ʿa=di=na, *ḥiṭṭina 'a variety of wheat', where the a-sign ʿa writes ḥi, not the expected ḥa, and d writes ṭ (P. Anastasi IV 8, 11; Hoch 1994, 85, no. 104). Rivals: ḫṭ 'sceptre, rod' (DULAT 410; Akk. ḫaṭṭu), and ḥṯ 'unleavened bread' (DULAT 373) with *118 = ṯa.

## References

- Reading: di Mino; Hoch 1994
- HALOT: Koehler, Ludwig; Baumgartner, Walter; Stamm, Johann Jakob; Richardson, M. E. J. (trans. and ed.) (1994), The Hebrew and Aramaic Lexicon of the Old Testament, vols. I–IV. E. J. Brill, Leiden · New York · Köln
- Hoch, James E. (1994), Semitic Words in Egyptian Texts of the New Kingdom and Third Intermediate Period. Princeton University Press
- DULAT: del Olmo Lete, Gregorio; Sanmartín, Joaquín (2015), A Dictionary of the Ugaritic Language in the Alphabetic Tradition. Brill, Leiden/Boston (Handbook of Oriental Studies 1/112); Third Revised Edition, tr. and ed. Wilfred G.E. Watson; 2 parts
- GORILA III: Godart, Louis; Olivier, Jean-Pierre (1976), Recueil des inscriptions en linéaire A, volume 3: Tablettes, nodules et rondelles édités en 1975 et 1976 (GORILA III). École française d'Athènes (Études crétoises XXI, 3); Librairie orientaliste Paul Geuthner, Paris

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