# KI-KI-RA-JA (kikkarāya)

> (men) of the Kikkar, 'round district' (gentilic heading of a head-count roster)

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

- Reading: kikkarāya
- Confidence: Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once.
- Root: [\*kakkar-/\*kikkar-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/1097/index.md>) 'round loaf, disk; talent; (round) district'
- Kind: Toponym
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: KI (ki) · KI (ki) · RA (ra) · JA (ja)
- Rank: Amorite-linked appendix

## Compared forms

- Hebrew: כִּכָּר *kikkār* — kikkār (כִּכָּר) 'round district' (Gen 13:12; Neh 12:28); ʾanšê hakkikkār 'the men of the Kikkar' (Neh 3:22); also 'round loaf' (1 Sam 2:36)
- Ugaritic: *kakkaru* — kkr /kakkaru/ 'talent' (DULAT 430)

## Attestations

- [HT 85b](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT85b/index.md>): KI-KI-RA-JA — (men) of the Kikkar, 'round district' (gentilic heading)

## Commentary

HT 85b: KI-KI-RA-JA · heads the face over eleven entries of one unit each (KI-RE-TA₂ 1, QE-KA 1 … WA-DU-NI-MI 1, MA-DI 1, QA-*310-I 1). HT 85a is headed A-DU · *307+*307 · VIR+[?], so the tablet counts men, and a group label fits the heading. -JA writes the gentilic -āya: the men of the Kikkar, kikkār 'territory around a place', as the Kikkar of the Jordan (Gen 13:10; HALOT 473). KI-KI-RA writes kikkər-, the stem before an ending, as construct kikkəráyim 'two talents' (2 Kgs 5:23). Rivals: kikkār 'round loaf' (1 Sam 2:36; HALOT 473), one to each man; a personal name heading the roster. KE-KI-RU (HT 94b) is on the same root. One attestation.

## Same root

- [KE-KI-RU](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/KE-KI-RU/index.md>) (Kikkaru)
- [QA-KU-RE](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/QA-KU-RE/index.md>) (kakkarē)
- [QE-KU-RE](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/QE-KU-RE/index.md>) (kikkᵊrē)

## In the onomasticon

- [KI-KI-RA-JA](<https://linear-a.ai/names/KI-KI-RA-JA/index.md>): Gentilic, Semitic

## 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
- 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

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