# I-SI (ʾiššê)

> fire offering(s)

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

- Reading: ʾiššê
- Confidence: Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once.
- Root: [\*ʾišs-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/812/index.md>) 'fire'
- Kind: Ritual
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: I (i) · SI (si)

## Compared forms

- : see A-SE

## Attestations

- [KH 9](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/KH9/index.md>): I-SI CYP+D ¹⁄₂
- [PYR Wc 4](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/PYRWc4/index.md>): TI I-SI

## Commentary

KH 9 MI / I-SI · CYP+D ½ 2, with cyperus; PYR Wc 4, a roundel, TI (figs) · I-SI. Hebrew ʾiššeh 'offering by fire' (HALOT 93), the rival of A-SE ʾāsē 'physician'; the two spellings share no site (A-SE: HT, ZA; I-SI: KH, PYR). Frankincense alone is an ʾiššeh (Lev 24:7), as cyperus is on KH 9. Weak point: one consonant. Two attestations. See A-SE.

## References

- Reading: di Mino
- HALOT: Koehler, Ludwig; Baumgartner, Walter; Stamm, Johann Jakob; Richardson, M. E. J. (trans. and ed.) (1994), The Hebrew and Aramaic Lexicon of the Old Testament, vols. I–IV. E. J. Brill, Leiden · New York · Köln

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