I-KA

farmer, plowman (recipient)

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Reading
ʾikkār
Confidence
Speculative
Root
*ʾkr 1, *ʾa/ikkār- 2 ‘to cultivate’ 1, ‘laborer’ 2
Kind
Personnel
Language
Semitic
Rank
—

Compared forms

  • Akkadianikkarumikkarum ‘farmer, farm laborer, plowman’ (Huehnergard 1997, glossary)
  • Hebrewאִכָּרʾikkārʾikkār (אִכָּר) ‘farmer, agricultural worker’ (HALOT 47)
  • Syriacʾakkārāʾakkārā ‘farmer, husbandman, plowman’

Attestations2 cited

  1. HT 91I-KA *326 GRA .3farmer, plowman (recipient in grain and commodity lists)
  2. HT 1023DI-KA 5farmer(s): 5

Commentary

HT 91 opens with I-KA over grain and small rations of oil, olives, figs and wine; HT 102 I-KA 5 (KA dotted) in a grain ledger, KU-RO 1060 after SA-RA₂ GRA 976. ʾikkār ‘farmer’: Akk. ikkaru ‘plowman, farmer’ (CAD I/J 49), Heb. ʾikkār, a loan from it (HALOT 47), Syr. ʾakkārā; the geminate and final r unwritten. Rival: the personal name Ikkaru (ORACC QPN). Two attestations. See I-KI-RA and A-KI-RO.

On the 3D inscriptions1 inscription

HT 102Haghia Triada…i-ka
Linear A Lexicon