# DA-TA-RA (Daṯar)

> Old (man's name); rival 'He of the gate'

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

- Reading: Daṯar
- 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) · TA (ta) · RA (ra)

## Compared forms

- : see DA-SE-RA-TE

## Attestations

- [HT 6a](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT6a/index.md>): DA-TA-RA TE NI 15
- [HT 88](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT88/index.md>): DA-TA-RE 1 — Old (man's name); rival 'He of the gate'

## Commentary

HT 6a .1–2 KA-PA · DA-TA-RA · TE · NI 15, heading a fig entry (GORILA I 13). HT 88 .6 DA-TA-RE 1, in the KI-RO roster before KU-RO 6 (GORILA I 139), the same name. daṯar 'old', the masculine of DA-SE-RA-TE Dašurat: Amorite DA-ŠU-RU-UM beside fem. DA-ŠU-RA-TUM (Gelb nos. 1490, 1489). TA writes ṯ as in TA-RA ṯa(ġ)ra, where DA-SE-RA-TE writes it SE. Rival: ḏā-ṯaġri 'He of the gate', ḏā as in DA-MI-NU + ṯaġr- as in TA-RA, a type with no attested name.

## Same root

- [DA-SE-RA-TE](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/DA-SE-RA-TE/index.md>) (Dašurat)

## In the onomasticon

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

## References

- Reading: di Mino; Gelb 1980
- AS 21: Gelb, Ignace J. (1980), Computer-aided Analysis of Amorite. Assyriological Studies 21,The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago
- 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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