DA-QE-RA

the (district) of Qīr, the walled town; heading opposite KA-PA 'village'; rival diḳaru 'pot'

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Reading
ḏā-Qīra
Confidence
Candidate
Root
*ḏī- ‘he who, that which’ (masculine…) + *qiyr- ‘wall’
Kind
Toponym
Language
Semitic
Rank
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Compared forms

  • Moabiteqrqr ‘city’ (Mesha 11, 12, 24, 29; HALOT 1099)
  • Hebrewקִירqîrqîr קִיר ‘wall’ (HALOT 1099); qîr Môʾāb beside ʿār Môʾāb (Isa 15:1)
  • Akkadiandiqārudiqāru ‘round-bottomed bowl’ (CAD D 157), the rival

Attestations3 cited

  1. HT 120DA-QE-RAbowl or vessel; perhaps a vessel-account heading
  2. HT 57aDA-QE-RA
  3. HT 6aDA-QE-RA

Commentary

KA-PA and DA-QE-RA head the two sections of HT 6a; DA-QE-RA heads HT 120, grain to DA-ME, KI-RE-TA-NA and PA-I-TO, against HT 102 under KA-PA (Uchitel 2003, 82). ḏā ‘the one of’ (cf. DA-NA-SI) + qīr ‘walled town’, Moabite qr ‘city’ (HALOT 1099); towns beside villages, Heb. ʿārîm // kᵊpārîm (1 Chr 27:25). Qīr is a town name, as Heb. Qîr Môʾāb, Qîr-Ḥereś (HALOT 1100); a town name is diptotic, genitive -a (Fischer 2002, §§152–153; Ug. ʾugarita, Huehnergard 2012, 40), as Amorite ḏū before a name: ZU-I-LA, ZU-ᵈIŠ-ḪA-RA (Gelb 1980, nos. 6596, 6598). Rivals: diqāru ‘bowl’ (CAD D 157), Ug. dqr ‘pot’ (DULAT 276). See KA-PA.

On the 3D inscriptions

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

Linear A Lexicon