# \*304 (pidru) > fat, tallow (an oil/fat-register commodity) A Linear A word in the Linear A Lexicon. The reading is a proposal and carries its tier. - Reading: pidru - Confidence: Candidate. A comparison worth testing; the evidence is thin or the word is rare. - Root: [\*pidr-]() 'fat' 1, 'dung' 2 - Kind: Commodity - Language: Semitic - Signs: \*304 ## Compared forms - Hebrew: *peder* — peder 'kidney fat, suet', burnt on the altar with the head, wəʾet-happāder, Lev 1:8 (HALOT 914) ## Attestations - [HT 12](): \*304 5 — oil/fat-register commodity; perhaps fat or tallow - [HT 14](): \*304 9 — oil/fat-register commodity; perhaps fat or tallow - [HT 50a](): \*304 1 ¹⁄₂ - [HT 90](): \*304 1 — oil/fat-register commodity; perhaps fat or tallow - [HT 91](): \*304 ≈ ¹⁄₆ — oil/fat-register commodity; perhaps fat or tallow - [HT 92](): \*304 12 - [HT 100](): \*304+PA \[…\] - [HT 101](): \*304 3 — oil/fat-register commodity: 3 - [HT 116a](): \*304 12 - [HT 116b](): \*304 15 — oil/fat-register commodity; perhaps fat or suet - [HT 125b](): \*304 10 - [HT 127a](): \*304+PA-DA-\*47-KU 1 - [HT 129](): \*304 10 — oil/fat-register commodity; perhaps fat or tallow - [HT 131a](): \*304 12 ³⁄₄ — oil/fat-register commodity; perhaps fat or tallow - [HT 18](): \*304 3 — oil/fat-register commodity; perhaps fat or tallow - [HT 21](): \*304 7 ³⁄₄ - [HT 28a](): \*304 2 - [HT 33](): SA-RA₂ \*401+\*304 - [HT 41a](): \*305 \*304 10 - [HT Wa 1020](): \*304+PA KU-PA - [HT Wa 1021bis](): \*304+PA CYP+D 3 - [HT Wc 3016](): KA-KU-PA \*304+PA CYP+D - [HT Wc 3017](): QA-KU-RE DI-\*306 CYP+D \*304+PA - [HT Wc 3020](): \*188-DU \*304+PA CYP+D - [KH 7b](): \*304+PA 1 - [KH 8](): \*304 ¹⁄₄ - [KH 9](): SI+TA2-\*304 1 - [KH 12](): \*401+\*304 ¹⁄₅ - [KH 13](): \*304-CYP ¹⁄₃ - [KH 37](): \*304+\[ \] 2 - [KH 73](): \*304+PA 1 - [KH 85](): \*304 - [KN Zg 57a](): \*401+RO \*401+RO \*401+\*304 \*401+RU \*418+L2 \[…\] \[…\] \[…\] \[…\] NI \[…\] \[…\] \[…\] \[…\] VAS \[…\] \[…\] - [PH 8a](): \*304 2 - [PH 14a](): JA-\*304 NI - [PH 28b](): 102 2 \*304 6 6 \*811 - [PYR 2](): \*304 ¹⁄₂ - [ZA 6a](): OLIV 25 \*304 20 I-SE — oil/fat-register commodity ## Commentary Commodity ideogram on 38 tablets, regularly among GRA, OLE, OLIV and related commodities, most often before a quantity. pidru 'fat': Central Semitic *pidr- 'fat', Heb. peder 'suet from the kidney' (Lev 1:8; HALOT 914), JArm. pidrā 'fat', Arab. fidra 'piece of meat'. *304+PA is A 629 in SigLA, a sign Schoep separates from A 304 (Schoep 2002, 123). Rival: an agricultural commodity booked between oil and olives, Palmer's pulses or a spice such as cyperus or coriander (Schoep 2002, 123–124). ## Same root - [\*304+PA]() (pidru + PA) ## References - Reading: di Mino; HALOT; Schoep 2002 - 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 - Schoep, Ilse (2002), The Administration of Neopalatial Crete: A Critical Assessment of the Linear A Tablets and Their Role in the Administrative Process. Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca (Minos Suplemento 17) --- Page: https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/*304/ Licence: CC BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Cite as: di Mino, Tom. 2026. Linear A Lexicon. Plasma AI. https://linear-a.ai/. Data: kaphtor, commit 50525edd.