# DI (dibšu) > honey, fruit syrup—commodity abbreviation of \*dibšu; rival dblt 'fig cake'. In personnel lists a separate single-sign abbreviation A Linear A word in the Linear A Lexicon. The reading is a proposal and carries its tier. - Reading: dibšu - Confidence: Candidate. A comparison worth testing; the evidence is thin or the word is rare. - Root: [\*dVbš-]() 'honey' - Kind: Commodity - Language: Semitic - Signs: DI (di) - Rank: #84 of the top 100 ## Compared forms - Akkadian: *dišpu* — dišpu 'honey' (CAD D 161–63); delivered with oil, EA 55:12 - Hebrew: דְּבַשׁ *dǝbaš* — דְּבַשׁ dǝbaš 'honey'; Deut 32:13–14 beside חֶמְאַת בָּקָר (cf. DI and E on HT12) - Arabic: *dibs* — dibs 'grape molasses' - Ugaritic (rival): *dblt* — dblt 'dried fig, fig cake' (DULAT 261), in commodity lists by the quarter (KTU 4.751:10; 4.60:5) beside nbt 'honey' (DULAT 610; 4.14, 4.751); Hebrew dǝbēlâ ## Attestations - [HT 3](): DI 2 - [HT 20](): QE-KU-RE DI ¹⁄₂ — honey (abbreviation), ½ - [HT 32](): DI 65 - [HT 66](): DI 2 - [HT 69](): DI 8 - [HT 85b](): DI 1 — roster category logogram (unread) - [HT 97a](): DI 4 - [HT 111a](): DI 14\[ - [HT 122b](): DI 2 — roster entry (abbreviation) ## Commentary Two uses, all at Haghia Triada (GORILA I 7, 37, 61, 121, 123, 133, 159, 181, 209). Commodity: HT 20 .3 QE-KU-RE · DI ½ (logographic, a divisible product: Montecchi 2008, 318); HT 32 SU-RE 108, DI 65 and OLE+NE RE 104, DI 53 (each after a larger figure, as a sub-entry); OLE+DI 12× on HT 12, 14, 28a, 28b, 50b, 90, 116a, 129, also OLE+QE+DI (HT 121), DI+QE (HT 101); HT 111a DI 14[ before NI. Personnel or recipient, whole numbers in name lists, a single-sign abbreviation like PA, KA, JU, KI (Montecchi 2008, 318): HT 97a .4 DI 4 under VIR+KA; HT 122b .4 DI 2 within KU-RO 65; HT 66 DI 2 after VIR; HT 85b DI 1; HT 3 DI 2; HT 69 DI 8. dibšu applies to the commodity only; rival Ug. dblt 'fig cake'. MA-DI beside DI on 4 tablets. Broken: HT 122a ]-DI, HT 128a DỊ[, HT 62+73 DI[, HT 3 .5 DỊ[, HT 69 .3 ]DI 12[. One consonant, /d/; all witnesses at HT. ## Same root - [OLE+DI]() (dišpu) - [OLE+QE+DI]() ## References - Reading: GORILA I; CAD D 161–63; DULAT 261, 610; Montecchi 2008, 318 - KTU: Dietrich, Manfried; Loretz, Oswald; Sanmartín, Joaquín (2013), Die keilalphabetischen Texte aus Ugarit, Ras Ibn Hani und anderen Orten / The Cuneiform Alphabetic Texts from Ugarit, Ras Ibn Hani and Other Places (KTU³). Ugarit-Verlag, Münster (Alter Orient und Altes Testament 360/1); ISBN 978-3-86835-014-2 - EA: Moran, William L. (1992), The Amarna Letters. Johns Hopkins University Press - CAD D: Oriental Institute (A. Leo Oppenheim, ed.) (1959), The Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, vol. D. - DULAT: del Olmo Lete, Gregorio; Sanmartín, Joaquín (2015), A Dictionary of the Ugaritic Language in the Alphabetic Tradition. Brill, Leiden/Boston (Handbook of Oriental Studies 1/112); Third Revised Edition, tr. and ed. Wilfred G.E. Watson; 2 parts - Montecchi, Barbara (2008), Note d'analisi testuale delle tavolette in Lineare A di Haghia Triada. Annuario della Scuola Archeologica di Atene e delle Missioni Italiane in Oriente,86, Serie III, 8,Scuola Archeologica Italiana di Atene (volume dated 2008, printed 2010),313–326 - 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 --- Page: https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/DI/ Licence: CC BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Cite as: di Mino, Tom. 2026. Linear A Lexicon. Plasma AI. https://linear-a.ai/. Data: kaphtor, commit 50525edd.