# A-SI-KI-RA (ha-Śikira)

> personal name, 'the Hired' (article ha- + SI-KI-RA); rival haśkira 'he rewarded'

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

- Reading: ha-Śikira
- Confidence: Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once.
- Root: [\*śVkVr-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/K0481/index.md>) 'hire'
- Kind: Personal name
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: A (a) · SI (si) · KI (ki) · RA (ra)

## Compared forms

- Ugaritic: *š-k-r* — /š-k-r/ I 'to hire' (DULAT 804)
- Hebrew: Śākār, PN (1 Chr 11:35); names with the article, haq-Qôṣ (1 Chr 24:10), hal-Lôḥēš (Neh 3:12)
- Amorite: ʾAškur, DN, AŠ-KU-RA-AN, AŠ-KUR-ᵈIM (Gelb 1980 nos. 947, 950), 'of uncertain origin' (Huffmon, APNM 172), rival

## Attestations

- [KH 20](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/KH20/index.md>): A-SI-KI-RA CYP+E — personal name, 'the Hired'; rival haśkira 'he rewarded'

## Commentary

KH 20 .1 A-SI-KI-RA · CYP+E ⅓, an entry before cyperus, parallel to ]DU-RE-ZA · CYP+E ½ (GORILA III 51). The article ha- (A, h unwritten, as in A-TU-RI-SI-TI) + SI-KI-RA Śikira 'Hired' (HT 8a), the pair of A-KI-DA-RO beside KI-DA-RO; Hebrew names take the article, haq-Qôṣ (1 Chr 24:10). Rival: haśkira 'he rewarded', an H-stem of the same root, and the Amorite DN ʾAškur (Gelb nos. 947, 950). One witness.

## Same root

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

## In the onomasticon

- [A-SI-KI-RA](<https://linear-a.ai/names/A-SI-KI-RA/index.md>): Personal name, Semitic

## References

- Reading: di Mino; DULAT; Gelb 1980; Huffmon
- AS 21: Gelb, Ignace J. (1980), Computer-aided Analysis of Amorite. Assyriological Studies 21,The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago
- APNM: Huffmon, Herbert B. (1965), Amorite Personal Names in the Mari Texts: A Structural and Lexical Study. The Johns Hopkins Press, Baltimore
- 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
- 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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