# DI-\*306 (Diʿa)

> Diʿa 'Knowledge' (personal name)

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

- Reading: Diʿa
- Confidence: Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once.
- Root: [\*ydʕ](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/2500/index.md>) 'know'
- Kind: Personal name
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: DI (di) · \*306

## Compared forms

- Amorite: daʿum, diʿ(atān)um, fem. daʿatum, diʿatum 'knowledge' (Gelb 1980, 17); DAʿ-UM, DA-UM (no. 1491); DIʿ-ATAN-UM, DI-ḪA-TA-NU-U[M] (no. 1507)

## Attestations

- [HT Wc 3017](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HTWc3017/index.md>): QA-KU-RE DI-\*306 CYP+D \*304+PA — personal name, 'Knowledge'

## Commentary

HT Wc 3017, a roundel, face a QA-KU-RE · DI-*306 ·, face b CYP+D · *304+PA, DI-*306 whole and undotted (GORILA II 77); SigLA reads NA; the hanging strokes are DI's. DI writes di, *306 the ʿa: Diʿa 'Knowledge', Amorite diʿum, fem. diʿatum 'knowledge' (Gelb 1980, 17), as in the name DIʿ-ATAN-UM (Gelb 1980, no. 1507). Rival: HT 20 has the same frame, QE-KU-RE · DI ½, with DI a commodity; DI-*306 would then be that commodity written out. One attestation.

## Same root

- [A-MI-DA-U](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/A-MI-DA-U/index.md>) (ʿAmmī-dāʿ(u))
- [JA-DA-SU](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/JA-DA-SU/index.md>) (Yadaʿ-Šum)

## In the onomasticon

- [DI-\*306](<https://linear-a.ai/names/DI-*306/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 II: Godart, Louis; Olivier, Jean-Pierre (1979), Recueil des inscriptions en linéaire A, volume 2: Nodules, scellés et rondelles édités avant 1970 (GORILA II). École française d'Athènes (Études crétoises XXI, 2); Librairie orientaliste Paul Geuthner, Paris

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