# A-SI-DA-TO-I (ʾAšdōdī)

> the Ashdodite, a man of Ashdod (gentilic)

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

- Reading: ʾAšdōdī
- Confidence: Candidate. A comparison worth testing; the evidence is thin or the word is rare.
- Root: ʾAšdōd (Pre-Greek) + -ī (nisbe)
- Kind: Toponym
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: A (a) · SI (si) · DA (da) · TO (to) · I (i)

## Compared forms

- Ugaritic: *aḏdd* — aḏdd 'Ashdod' (KTU 4.709:1–2); aḏddy 'Ashdodite' (KTU 4.96:3; 4.352:9; 4.635 passim), aḏddym (KTU 4.721:3) (RGTC 12/2, 3)
- Akkadian (Ugarit): ᵘʳᵘAš₂-da-di (RS 19.20 [PRU 6 156]:3)
- Hebrew: הָאַשְׁדּוֹדִי *hā-ʾAšdôdî* — hā-ʾAšdôdî (הָאַשְׁדּוֹדִי) 'the Ashdodite' (Josh 13:3); ʾAšdôd (HAL 90)

## Attestations

- [ARKH 2](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/ARKH2/index.md>): A-SI-DA-TO-I 12 — the Ashdodite (gentilic), 12

## Commentary

ARKH 2 .2–3 A-SI-DA-TO-I 12, intact, the largest share in the must list headed SI-DA-TE (GORILA III 7). ʾa-š(i)-da-dō-ī: SI-DA as syllabic Aš₂-da-di, TO the ō of Hebrew ʾAšdôd with T for d as in TA-DI dādī, -I the gentilic -ī as in KA-NA-NI-TI kanaʿanītī. Ugarit lists men by their town as PN aḏddy (KTU 4.635). The town is Tel Ashdod (RGTC 12/2, 3); Naʾaman 1997 places Ugaritic aḏdd at Enkomi on Cyprus (apud RGTC 12/2, 3).

## In the onomasticon

- [A-SI-DA-TO-I](<https://linear-a.ai/names/A-SI-DA-TO-I/index.md>): Gentilic, Semitic

## References

- Reading: di Mino
- 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
- Naʾaman, N. (1997), The Network of Canaanite Late Bronze Kingdoms and the City of Ashdod. Ugarit-Forschungen,29,599–626
- 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
- RGTC 12/2: Belmonte Marín, Juan Antonio (2001), Die Orts- und Gewässernamen der Texte aus Syrien im 2. Jt. v. Chr.. Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag, Wiesbaden (Répertoire Géographique des Textes Cunéiformes 12/2; Beihefte zum Tübinger Atlas des Vorderen Orients B 7/12/2)

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