# \*305

> personnel-category logogram, a counted class of persons

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

- Reading: none proposed
- Confidence: Probable. Fits the word’s contexts and has a close external comparison, without an independent control.
- Kind: Personnel
- Language: Logogram, Logograms
- Signs: \*305
- Rank: #21 of the top 100

## Compared forms

- Ugaritic: 𐎄𐎁𐎈 *dbḥ* — dbḥ "sacrifice" (DULAT 259)
- Hebrew: *zebaḥ* — zebaḥ "sacrifice" (BDB 256); zōbēaḥ "sacrificer"
- Phoenician: 𐤃𐤁𐤇 *dbḥ* — dbḥ "sacrifice" (DNWSI 234)
- Aramaic: *dabbāḥā* — dabbāḥā "sacrificer, butcher"

## Attestations

- [HT 89](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT89/index.md>): A-SA-RA₂ \*307 \*305 23
- [HT 33](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT33/index.md>): \*305 90
- [HT 100](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT100/index.md>): \*305 5 — personnel category; exact class unknown
- [HT 132](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT132/index.md>): PA₃ \*305 1
- [HT 126b](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT126b/index.md>): \*305 3
- [HT 57b](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT57b/index.md>): \*305 8
- [HT 63](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT63/index.md>): \*305 TE 1
- [HT 41a](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT41a/index.md>): \*305 \*304 10 — personnel category; exact class unknown
- [HT 45a](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT45a/index.md>): \*86 \*305 2
- [HT 45b](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT45b/index.md>): \*318 \*305 7

## Commentary

A logogram in standalone counted entries, a syllabogram inside sign groups. HT 89 counts *305 23 in the headcount 23+22+24+13+5, KU-RO 87, and on HT 100 *305 5 is a subcategory of the personnel total KU-RO 97 (Uchitel 2003, 85). Uchitel takes it for an age group (Uchitel 2006, 75), Montecchi for a group of persons, never counted in fractions (Montecchi 2008, 315). Ten documents. See KA-*305.

## References

- Reading: Uchitel 2003; Uchitel 2006; Montecchi 2008
- 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
- Uchitel, Alexander (2006), Listing by Age and Occupation in Minoan Linear A. Kadmos,45,De Gruyter (volume dated 2006, issued 2007),73–81
- Montecchi, Barbara (2008), Note d'analisi testuale delle tavolette in Lineare A di Haghia Triada. Annuario della Scuola Archeologica di Atene e delle Missioni Italiane in Oriente,86, Serie III, 8,Scuola Archeologica Italiana di Atene (volume dated 2008, printed 2010),313–326
- BDB: Brown, Francis; Driver, S. R.; Briggs, Charles A. (1907), A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament, with an Appendix Containing the Biblical Aramaic. Houghton Mifflin Company
- DNWSI: Hoftijzer, J.; Jongeling, K.; with appendices by R. C. Steiner, A. Mosak Moshavi and B. Porten (1995), Dictionary of the North-West Semitic Inscriptions. E. J. Brill, Leiden/New York/Köln (Handbuch der Orientalistik I/21), 2 parts
- Uchitel, Alexander (2003), HT 94. Minos,37–38 (2002–2003),Universidad de Salamanca,81–88

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