# \*47-KU-NA (sōkina)

> prefect, administrator (heading of a wine issue); rivals mōgun- 'regalement, gift', Dagan

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

- Reading: sōkina
- Confidence: Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once.
- Root: [\*sākin-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/3842/index.md>) 'administrator, prefect, governor'
- Kind: Personnel
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: \*47 · KU (ku) · NA (na)

## Compared forms

- Canaanite: *su₂-ki-na* — su₂-ki-na 'prefect', gloss in EA 362 (ORACC aemw/amarna P270873)
- Ugaritic: 𐎝𐎋𐎐 *śkn* — śkn 'prefect, governor; manager, administrator' (DULAT 746)
- Akkadian: *sākinu* — sākinu 'a high official', Alalakh, Boğazköy, Ras Shamra (CAD S 76)
- Hebrew: *sōkēn* — sōkēn 'steward' (HALOT 755)

## Attestations

- [ZA 15a](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/ZA15a/index.md>): \*47-KU-NA SA-VIN

## Commentary

ZA 15a .1 *47-KU-NA SA-VIN, all four signs whole and undotted (GORILA III 183), heading a wine issue with libation portions (SI-PI-KI) and groats. With *47 = so: sōkina 'prefect', the vowels of the Canaanite gloss su₂-ki-na (EA 362), with the ō of the Canaanite shift. Rivals: mōgun- 'regalement, gift' with *47 = mo, /m-g-n/ 'to wine and dine, regale' (DULAT 525); Dagan with *47 = do (DULAT 265). One witness. See SI-KI-NE.

## Same root

- [SI-KI-NE](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/SI-KI-NE/index.md>) (Sikinet)

## In the onomasticon

- [\*47-KU-NA](<https://linear-a.ai/names/*47-KU-NA/index.md>): Title, Semitic

## References

- Reading: di Mino
- ORACC: Oracc Steering Committee, Oracc: The Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus. University of Pennsylvania Museum; CC BY-SA 3.0 unless otherwise stated
- EA: Moran, William L. (1992), The Amarna Letters. Johns Hopkins University Press
- 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
- 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
- GORILA III: Godart, Louis; Olivier, Jean-Pierre (1976), Recueil des inscriptions en linéaire A, volume 3: Tablettes, nodules et rondelles édités en 1975 et 1976 (GORILA III). École française d'Athènes (Études crétoises XXI, 3); Librairie orientaliste Paul Geuthner, Paris

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