I-KI-RA

farmer, tenant farmer (occupational title)

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

  • Akkadianikkaruikkaru ‘plowman, farmer, farm bailiff’ (CAD I/J 49)
  • Hebrewʾikkārʾikkār ‘farmer, agricultural worker’, bōšû ʾikkārîm ‘the farmers were ashamed’ (Jer 14:4; HALOT 47)
  • Syriacʾakkārāʾakkārā ‘farmer’ (HALOT 47)

Attestations1 cited

  1. HT 25aI-KI-RA 1farmer, tenant farmer, 1

Commentary

HT 25a .5, a personnel list: I-KI-RA 1, whole as written; the lower-left margin before it is lost (GORILA I 44–45). ikkara ‘farmer’: Akkadian ikkaru ‘plowman, farmer’ (CAD I/J 49), Hebrew ʾikkār (Isa 61:5; Jer 14:4; HALOT 47). I-KA ʾikkār (HT 91, HT 102) leaves the final r unwritten; here r is written with a following vowel. Rival: a personal name. One attestation. See A-KI-RO.

On the 3D inscriptions

Not written on any of the 82 inscriptions modelled so far.

Linear A Lexicon