# KI-DA-TA (Kidata)

> a party receiving grain (name or place)

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

- Reading: Kidata
- Confidence: Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once.
- Root: Kidata (Pre-Greek)
- Kind: Administrative
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: KI (ki) · DA (da) · TA (ta)

## Compared forms

- Ugaritic: 𐎋𐎄 *kd* — kd "jar, jug" (ubiquitous in admin texts)
- Hebrew: כַּד *kad* — כַּד (kad) "jar, pitcher" (Gen 24:14, 1 Kgs 17:12)
- Akkadian: *kaddu* — kaddu "lid, cover"

## Attestations

- [HT 40](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT40/index.md>): KI-DA-TA GRA 134

## Commentary

HT 40: NU-DU-*331 · TE · GRA 207 / KI-DA-TA · GRA 134 / KU-RO; KI-DA-TA holds the slot of NU-DU-*331, a party, with its own GRA entry. HT 27a .4 KI-DA-[, broken after DA, where GORILA prefers KI-DA-TẸ[ (GORILA I 49), is a damaged second witness. Rival: kaddat 'jar' (Ug. kd, a jar and a measure for liquids, ca. 22 l, DULAT 424), which leaves KI for ka unexplained and does not fit a grain entry.

## References

- Reading: di Mino
- 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
- 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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