# DA-SE-RA-TE (Dašurat)

> Dašurat 'Old (f.)' (woman's name; Amorite dašuratum 'old')

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

- Reading: Dašurat
- Confidence: Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once.
- Root: [\*dṯr](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/3774/index.md>) 'to become effaced, obliterated' 1, 'to become old' 2
- Kind: Personal name
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: DA (da) · SE (se) · RA (ra) · TE (te)

## Compared forms

- Amorite: DAŠUR-AT-UM, DA-ŠU-RA-TUM, FN (YOS VIII 51 2, 14; Gelb 1980 no. 1489); DAŠUR-UM, DA-ŠU-RU-UM (no. 1490); DAŠUR-AH+ʿAŠTAR, DA-ŠU-RA-EŠ₄-DAR, FN (no. 1488); ʿAMM-I+DAŠUR, AM-MI-DA-ŠUR? (no. 729); dašurum, dušurum, fem. dašuratum, dašura 'old' (Gelb 1980, 17); Sippar da-šu-ra-tum, da-šu-ru-um (de Boer 2014, 341, 367)
- Arabic: daṯara, aor. -ṯuru, inf. duṯūr, of a trace of a dwelling 'it became effaced… and it became old'; of a man 'he became overcome by old age and emaciation'; dāṯir 'effaced' (Lane 851)
- Amarna: PN Dašarti, {m}da-a-šar-ti-i (EA 162)

## Attestations

- [SY Za 6](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/SYZa6/index.md>): DA-SE-RA-TE

## Commentary

SY Za 6, on the wall of a chalice-shaped serpentine libation table below the rim: one group of four signs, no divider (Muhly and Olivier 2008, 209–210). SE uncertain; DA (SA not excluded), RA and TE probable. DA-SE-RA-TE writes DA-ŠU-RA-TUM sign for sign without mimation: SE writes š, TE the feminine -t. Amorite š writes PS *ṯ, so dašur- is Arabic daṯara 'became old' (Lane 851). The sole word on a libation table: the dedicant's name, or 'the Old One (f.)' as an epithet. Rival: SA for DA. One attestation. See DA-TA-RA.

## Same root

- [DA-TA-RA](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/DA-TA-RA/index.md>) (Daṯar)

## In the onomasticon

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

## References

- Reading: di Mino; Gelb 1980; de Boer 2014; Lane
- EA: Moran, William L. (1992), The Amarna Letters. Johns Hopkins University Press
- AS 21: Gelb, Ignace J. (1980), Computer-aided Analysis of Amorite. Assyriological Studies 21,The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago
- Muhly, Polymnia; Olivier, Jean-Pierre (2008), Linear A Inscriptions from the Syme Sanctuary, Crete. Archaiologike Ephemeris,147,Archaeological Society at Athens,197–223
- Lane: Lane, Edward William (1863), An Arabic-English Lexicon. Williams and Norgate, London
- de Boer, Rients (2014), Amorites in the Early Old Babylonian Period. 

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