# \*316 (kiššanu)

> bean or legume; food commodity in ration allocations

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

- Reading: kiššanu
- Confidence: Candidate. A comparison worth testing; the evidence is thin or the word is rare.
- Root: [\*kišan-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/1606/index.md>) 'bean'
- Kind: Commodity
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: \*316

## Compared forms

- Akkadian: kiššanu, kiššenu 'a leguminous plant' (CAD K 456)

## Attestations

- [KH 91](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/KH91/index.md>): \]\*316 1 13/20 — beans, legumes
- [KH Wa 1001](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/KHWa1001/index.md>): \*316+KI DA+RO
- [KH Wa 1002](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/KHWa1002/index.md>): \*316+KI DA+RO
- [PH 1a](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/PH1a/index.md>): DI-RA-DI-NA \*316 𐝉
- [PH 8b](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/PH8b/index.md>): \*316 1

## Commentary

Commodity ideogram *316, six occurrences on five documents at Khania and Phaistos. On the nodules KH Wa 1001 and KH Wa 1002 the KI complement (*316+KI) gives the initial syllable /ki/. Akk. kiššanu, a leguminous plant, issued in the Alalakh ration lists (CAD K 456). On KH 91 *316 1 13/20 follows VIN (wine) in a rations list with GRA, NI (figs), *401+RU and *401+RA; on PH 1a it is allocated to named individuals (DI-RA-DI-NA, JA) with CYP. Weak point: the comparison is Akkadian alone.

## References

- Reading: di Mino
- CAD K: Oriental Institute (A. Leo Oppenheim and Erica Reiner, eds.) (1971), The Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, vol. 8, K. The Oriental Institute, Chicago; J. J. Augustin, Glückstadt

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