# DA-RI-DA (Dardaʿ)

> personal name, 'thistle' (Hebrew Dardaʿ)

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

- Reading: Dardaʿ
- Confidence: Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once.
- Root: [\*dardar-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/3196/index.md>) 'thistle'
- Kind: Personal name
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: DA (da) · RI (ri) · DA (da)

## Compared forms

- Hebrew: Dardaʿ, a wise man, wəkalkōl wədardaʿ bənê māḥôl 'and Calcol and Darda, sons of Mahol' (1 Kgs 5:11; HALOT 230)

## Attestations

- [HT 10a](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT10a/index.md>): DA-RI-DA 8 — personal name, 8
- [HT 85a](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT85a/index.md>): DA-RI-DA 12 — personal name
- [HT 93a](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT93a/index.md>): DA-RI-DA \*406-VS 2 — personal name
- [HT 122a](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT122a/index.md>): DA-RI-DA 1 — personal name

## Commentary

An entry with a numeral on four Haghia Triada tablets: HT 10a DA-RI-DA 8 before ME-ZA 3, in the KU-NI-SU list (GORILA I 21); HT 85a DA-RI-DA 12, first under A-DU · *307+*307 · VIR+[·] (GORILA I 131); HT 122a DA-RI-DA 1, last before KU-RO 31 (GORILA I 207); HT 93a DA-RI-DA *406VS 2 (GORILA I 147). Hebrew Dardaʿ (1 Kgs 5:11), with ʿ unwritten, from dardar 'thistle' by dissimilation (HALOT 230). Rival: a place or work unit, since 12 on HT 85a stands against 1 on HT 122a.

## In the onomasticon

- [DA-RI-DA](<https://linear-a.ai/names/DA-RI-DA/index.md>): Personal name, Semitic

## References

- Reading: di Mino; HALOT
- HALOT: Koehler, Ludwig; Baumgartner, Walter; Stamm, Johann Jakob; Richardson, M. E. J. (trans. and ed.) (1994), The Hebrew and Aramaic Lexicon of the Old Testament, vols. I–IV. E. J. Brill, Leiden · New York · Köln
- GORILA I: Godart, Louis; Olivier, Jean-Pierre (1976), Recueil des inscriptions en linéaire A, volume 1: Tablettes éditées avant 1970 (GORILA I). École française d'Athènes (Études crétoises XXI, 1); Librairie orientaliste Paul Geuthner, Paris

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