# \*306-TI-KA-A-RE (ʿatīq+are)

> the ancient, the noble (heading); rival 'became fertile'

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

- Reading: ʿatīq+are
- Confidence: Candidate. A comparison worth testing; the evidence is thin or the word is rare.
- Root: [\*ʕatVq-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/2658/index.md>) 'old, ancient, noble' 1, 'to go past, cross' 2
- Kind: Administrative
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: \*306 · TI (ti) · KA (ka) · A (a) · RE (re)

## Compared forms

- Hebrew: **ʿattîq* — *ʿattîq 'old, ancient', wəhaddəbārîm ʿattîqîm 'and the records are ancient' (1 Chr 4:22; HALOT 903)
- Arabic: *ʿatīq* — ʿatīq 'old; excellent, generous' (Lane 1947)
- Sabaic: *ʿtkr* — ʿtkr 'become fertile (land)', Ry 522/2 (Beeston 14), the rival

## Attestations

- [HT 4](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT4/index.md>): \*306-TI-KA-A-RE

## Commentary

HT 4: heads a short allocation list (DU-RI-TE 2, PA-RE, TA-PI-SI-DI 1). With *306 = ʿa, NWS √ʿ-t-q 'be old, noble' (Heb. ʿātīq, Arab. ʿatīq), with -A-RE a nominal suffix. Rival: Sabaic ʿtkr 'become fertile (of land)' (Beeston et al. 1982, 14; Ry 522/2), a t-infix stem of √ʿ-k-r, which covers the whole sequence, ʿa-ti-ka-(a)-re for ʿ-t-k-r, and suits a heading over an allocation list. The ʿ-t-q reading leaves -RE unexplained but has the broader NWS pedigree. Weak point: *306 = ʿa is a proposed value, which *306-TU ʿAttu (HT 9a, HT 9b, HT 119, HT 122a) and *306+MI ʿAmmī (HT 115b) also carry. See A-TI-KA.

## Same root

- [A-TI-KA](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/A-TI-KA/index.md>) (ʿAtīqa)

## References

- Reading: di Mino
- Beeston, A.F.L., M.A. Ghul, W.W. Müller & J. Ryckmans (1982), Sabaic Dictionary (English-French-Arabic). Peeters / Librairie du Liban
- 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
- Lane: Lane, Edward William (1863), An Arabic-English Lexicon. Williams and Norgate, London

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