*516

account, register (šipru), a transaction logogram

𐛀*516*5162 entries
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Reading
šipru
Confidence
Candidate
Root
*sapVr- ‘to count, recount, inscribe’
Kind
Administrative
Language
Semitic
Rank
—

Compared forms

  • Ugaritic𐎒𐎔𐎗sprspr (II) ‘tablet, register, list, inventory; in accounting, record of tribute’ (DULAT 756); spr (III) ‘number, inventory’ (DULAT 757)
  • Hebrewsēpersēper ‘inscription, letter, scroll’ (HALOT 766)
  • Phoenician𐤎𐤐𐤓sprspr ‘inscription; document’ (Krahmalkov 347)

Attestations10 cited

  1. HT 34DA-JU-TE SI-*516
  2. HT 96bQA-*118-RA-RE *516 GRA 40 ³⁄₄transaction or account sign; written over an erasure (GORILA I 157)
  3. HT 1183DSUS *516transaction/account marker
  4. HT 154.*516
  5. KH 12*516
  6. KH Wc 2066*516account, record, register
  7. KH Wc 2070*516account, record, register
  8. ZA 1a*516

Commentary

An administrative logogram, a transaction sign on HT 118 (SigLA). Ten occurrences at Haghia Triada, Khania and Zakros: nine stand alone, several head quantified entries, and two are on sealed Khania roundels. SI-*516 reads as an s-onset phonetic complement, the ground for Ugaritic spr ‘tablet, register’ and Heb. sēper/sōpēr. Weak point: no full phonetic spelling is attested.

On the 3D inscriptions1 inscription

HT 118Haghia Triada*516
Linear A Lexicon