A-PA₃-DI

personal name, ʿAbdī 'my servant'; rival the head of an ʿAbdi-DN name

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Reading
ʿAbdī
Confidence
Candidate
Root
*ʕVbd- ‘to serve, work’
Kind
Personal name
Language
Semitic
Rank
#68 of the top 100

Compared forms

  • Ugariticʕbdʕbd (I) ‘servant, slave’ (DULAT 136); ʕbdy PN, syll. ÌR-ya (DULAT 141)
  • AmarnaÌR-a-ši-ir-ta ʿAbdi-Aširta (EA 71:17)

Attestations1 cited

  1. PK Zb 26A-PA₃-DIpersonal name, ʿAbdī 'my servant' or ʿAbdi-[DN] 'servant of [DN]'

Commentary

PK Zb 26, a pithos sherd written retrograde, A-PA₃-DI[ broken after DI (Younger, Linear A Texts). ʿAbdī, as the Ugaritic PN ʿbdy, syll. ÌR-ya (DULAT 141), or the head of an ʿAbdi-DN name, as ʿbdyrḫ (DULAT 141) and Amarna ÌR-a-ši-ir-ta (EA 71:17). Amorite ḫa-ab-di-ia ʿabdiya at Tuttul (Buck 2018, 328). One witness.

On the 3D inscriptions

Not written on any of the 82 inscriptions modelled so far.

Linear A Lexicon