# DA-KI-TI (daqqati)

> fine (powder), ground fine

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

- Reading: daqqati
- Confidence: Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once.
- Root: [\*diḳ(ḳ)-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/1654/index.md>) 'be small' 1, 'be thin, fine' 2
- Kind: Ritual
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: DA (da) · KI (ki) · TI (ti)

## Compared forms

- Ugaritic: *daqatu* — dqt /daqatu/ 'small, tiny, thin' (DULAT 276)
- Eblaite: *du-gu-um duqq* — du-gu-um duqq 'powder' (GlOS 1, 143)
- Hebrew: daq, f. daqqâ (דַּקָּה) 'fine, crushed': qəṭōret sammîm daqqâ 'finely ground sweet incense' (Lev 16:12); hādēq 'very fine', of the sanctuary incense (Exod 30:36)

## Attestations

- [KN Zc 6](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/KNZc6/index.md>): A-DI DA-KI-TI-PA-KU NI-JA-NU — fine (powder), flask

## Commentary

KN Zc 6 register .2, after QI-TI-RI 'my incense' and A-DI 'until': incense ground fine, the Hebrew qəṭōret … daqqâ (Lev 16:12), Ug. dqt 'small, tiny, fine' (DULAT 276). Written as one unit with PA-KU 'flask' (DA-KI-TI-PA-KU, closed by a divider before NI-JA-NU). QI-TI-RI is masculine, so DA-KI-TI is a noun 'fine powder'. Rival: genitive of the divine name, 'of Daqqatu' (Ugaritic dqt, DN 'the Little One', DULAT 276), cf. JA-DI-KI-TU and A-DI-KI-TE-TE. Younger reads A-DI-DA-KI-TI-PA-KU as a muddled A-DI-KI-TE (Younger, Linear A Texts, Other Texts: Knossos). Cf. SKO Zc 2 ]DE-KI-TI[ (Skoteino cave, a painted vessel), broken on both sides.

## Same root

- [JA-DI-KI-TU](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/JA-DI-KI-TU/index.md>) (yā Diqqitu)
- [A-DI-KI-TE-TE](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/A-DI-KI-TE-TE/index.md>) (ʾa-Diqqitīt)

## References

- Reading: di Mino; DULAT; Younger, Linear A Texts
- 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
- GlOS 1: Sanmartín, Joaquín (2019), A Glossary of Old Syrian, Volume 1: ʔ – ḳ. Languages of the Ancient Near East 8/1,Eisenbrauns (Pennsylvania State University Press), University Park

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