# \*324-DI-RA (sōdir)

> one who sets in order (title or name)

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

- Reading: sōdir
- Confidence: Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once.
- Root: [\*sadār-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/K0390/index.md>) 'order'
- Kind: Personnel
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: \*324 · DI (di) · RA (ra)

## Compared forms

- Akkadian: *sadāru* — sadāru 'to do regularly, set in a row' (CAD S 11)
- Hebrew: *sēder* — sēder 'order, regulation', wəlōʾ sədārîm 'and without order' (Job 10:22; HALOT 744)

## Attestations

- [HT 122a](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT122a/index.md>): \*324-DI-RA 1 — one who sets in order (title or name; √s-d-r)
- [HT 9a](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT9a/index.md>): \*324-DI-RA 2 ¹⁄₂ — one who sets in order (title or name; √s-d-r)
- [HT 9b](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT9b/index.md>): \*324-DI-RA 2 — one who sets in order (title or name; √s-d-r)

## Commentary

A recipient in the HT 9a/9b wine lists under SA-RO · TE · VIN (2½, 2) and on HT 122a (1), one roster in three copies, among names and titles. *324 = SO: Linear A has no other SO sign, and Ferrara, Montecchi and Valério set LA 324 beside LA 363/364 as a Haghia Triada variant (2022, 88), compared with Linear B so (ibid. 98). SO-DI-RA = sōdir, active participle of s-d-r with ō for older ā and DI for d: Akk. sadāru 'to array, set in a row' (CAD S 11); Heb. śĕdērôt 'ranks' (2 Kgs 11:8, 15). SI-DA-RE stands on the same HT 122a roster. Rivals: šōṭēr 'officer' (√š-ṭ-r; Exod 5:6–19), which needs DI for ṭ; ʾaddīr 'noble' (Ug. yn (…) l ádrm 'wine (…) for the nobles', KTU 4.246:7, DULAT 21; Ebla a-ti-ir 'powerful', a name, Pagan 1998, row 845), which needs *324 for ʾa, a value plain A already writes. See SI-DA-RO.

## Same root

- [SI-DA-RE](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/SI-DA-RE/index.md>) (Siddāri)
- [SI-DA-RO](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/SI-DA-RO/index.md>) (siddāru)

## In the onomasticon

- [\*324-DI-RA](<https://linear-a.ai/names/*324-DI-RA/index.md>): Title, Semitic

## References

- Reading: di Mino; Pagan 1998
- KTU: Dietrich, Manfried; Loretz, Oswald; Sanmartín, Joaquín (2013), Die keilalphabetischen Texte aus Ugarit, Ras Ibn Hani und anderen Orten / The Cuneiform Alphabetic Texts from Ugarit, Ras Ibn Hani and Other Places (KTU³). Ugarit-Verlag, Münster (Alter Orient und Altes Testament 360/1); ISBN 978-3-86835-014-2
- 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
- Pagan, Joseph M. (1998), Ebla Electronic Corpus: Onomastic Data Base. Undena Publications (1998 disk); HTML edition by G. Buccellati, IIMAS / Cybernetica Mesopotamica (2012)
- 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
- CAD S: Oriental Institute (Erica Reiner, ed.) (1984), The Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, vol. 15, S. The Oriental Institute, Chicago; J. J. Augustin, Glückstadt

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