# DI-PA-JA (dipaya)

> dipas, a large handled vessel (Linear B di-pa)

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

- Reading: dipaya
- Confidence: Candidate. A comparison worth testing; the evidence is thin or the word is rare.
- Kind: Vessel
- Language: Aegean, Aegean substrate
- Signs: DI (di) · PA (pa) · JA (ja)

## Compared forms

- Linear B: di-pa, dual di-pa-e, a neuter noun counted with *202VAS and *214VAS: KN K 740 (bronze), K 875, PY Ta 641 (DMic I s.v. di-pa)
- Greek: δέπας, Homeric, borrowed from a Mediterranean language, as Mycenaean dipa confirms (Chantraine 1968, s.v. δέπας)
- Arabic: *dabbat* — dabbat 'vessel for oil' (PS *dabb-; Lane 841), the rival

## Attestations

- [PH 7a](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/PH7a/index.md>): DI-PA-JA \[…\] — dipas, a large handled vessel

## Commentary

PH 7a .1 DI-PA-JA, line-initial at the original left edge and whole; a short stroke stands apart after JA where the surface breaks (GORILA I 295, note .1). Linear B writes the vessel di-pa, given four handles, three or none on PY Ta 641 (qe-to-ro-we, ti-ri-jo-we, a-no-we): a vessel of some size rather than a cup (DMic I s.v. di-pa). Homeric δέπας keeps the word, borrowed from a Mediterranean language (Chantraine 1968, s.v. δέπας). DI-PA-JA writes the stem with -JA. Rival: Arabic dabbat 'vessel for oil' (PS *dabb-). One attestation.

## References

- Reading: di Mino; DMic I; Chantraine 1968
- DMic I: Aura Jorro, Francisco, Diccionario Micénico, vol. I (CSIC 1985). 
- Chantraine, Pierre (1968), Dictionnaire étymologique de la langue grecque: Histoire des mots. Klincksieck, Paris (1968–80)
- Lane: Lane, Edward William (1863), An Arabic-English Lexicon. Williams and Norgate, London
- 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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