# \*516 (šipru)

> account, register (šipru), a transaction logogram

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

- Reading: šipru
- Confidence: Candidate. A comparison worth testing; the evidence is thin or the word is rare.
- Root: [\*sapVr-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/2701/index.md>) 'to count, recount, inscribe'
- Kind: Administrative
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: \*516

## Compared forms

- Ugaritic: 𐎒𐎔𐎗 *spr* — spr (II) 'tablet, register, list, inventory; in accounting, record of tribute' (DULAT 756); spr (III) 'number, inventory' (DULAT 757)
- Hebrew: *sēper* — sēper 'inscription, letter, scroll' (HALOT 766)
- Phoenician: 𐤎𐤐𐤓 *spr* — spr 'inscription; document' (Krahmalkov 347)

## Attestations

- [HT 34](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT34/index.md>): DA-JU-TE SI-\*516
- [HT 96b](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT96b/index.md>): QA-\*118-RA-RE \*516 GRA 40 ³⁄₄ — transaction or account sign; written over an erasure (GORILA I 157)
- [HT 118](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT118/index.md>): SUS \*516 — transaction/account marker
- [HT 154.](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT154~2E/index.md>): \*516
- [KH 12](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/KH12/index.md>): \*516
- [KH Wc 2066](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/KHWc2066/index.md>): \*516 — account, record, register
- [KH Wc 2070](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/KHWc2070/index.md>): \*516 — account, record, register
- [ZA 1a](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/ZA1a/index.md>): \*516
- [ZA 11a](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/ZA11a/index.md>): DI-DI-KO-RA-ME-TA₂ \*516
- [ZA 11b](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/ZA11b/index.md>): E-TO-RI-\[?\] \*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.

## Same root

- [SI-\*516](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/SI-*516/index.md>) (si-SIPRU)

## References

- Reading: di Mino
- Krahmalkov: Krahmalkov, Charles R. (2000), A Phoenician-Punic Dictionary. Peeters (Leuven)
- 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

---

Page: https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/*516/
Licence: CC BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Cite as: di Mino, Tom. 2026. Linear A Lexicon. Plasma AI. https://linear-a.ai/. Data: kaphtor, commit 50525edd.