# PA-JA-RE (Payare)

> He (of) Re: Egyptian personal name Pꜣ-Rꜥ (Gordon's Pꜣy-Rꜥ); Linear B pa-ja-ro

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

- Reading: Payare
- Confidence: Probable. Fits the word’s contexts and has a close external comparison, without an independent control.
- Kind: Personal name
- Language: Middle Egyptian
- Signs: PA (pa) · JA (ja) · RE (re)
- Rank: #24 of the top 100

## Compared forms

- Egyptian: *pꜣ-rꜥ* — pꜣ-rꜥ 'he (of) Ra', a man's name, Thutmose III–Amenhotep III (PNM v6, personal_names_id 142613047; Ranke I, 114.11)
- Linear B: pa-ja-ro, a man on the Knossos roster KN As(2) 1519

## Attestations

- [HT 8b](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT8b/index.md>): PA-JA-RE 1 ¹⁄₈ — He (of) Re: Egyptian personal name Pꜣ-Rꜥ (PNM v6)
- [HT 29](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT29/index.md>): PA-JA-RE 1\[
- [HT 88](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT88/index.md>): PA-JA-RE 1 — He (of) Re: Egyptian personal name Pꜣ-Rꜥ (PNM v6); compare Linear B pa-ja-ro
- [ZA 10b](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/ZA10b/index.md>): PA-JA-RE 1 — He (of) Re: Egyptian personal name Pꜣ-Rꜥ (PNM v6)

## Commentary

HT 8b, HT 29, HT 88 and ZA 10b: a personal name in all four. Linear B pa-ja-ro is a masculine personal name in the Knossian roster KN As(2) 1519.6, and DMic compares it with Linear A PA-JA-RE. Gordon reads Egyptian Pꜣy-Rꜥ 'He-of-Re' (Gordon 1966a, 31, §127). PNM has the man's name pꜣ-rꜥ 'he (of) Ra' (Ranke I, 114.11, as PNM cites it), used from Thutmose III to Amenhotep III and spelled pꜣjj-rꜥ under Hatshepsut, the date of the LM IB tablets (Ilin-Tomich 2025); JA writes the jj. Amarna writes the same Re as -ri- in na-ap-ḫur-ri-ia, Nfr-ḫprw-rꜥ 'beautiful of form is Rē' (Hess 1993, 116). Rival: a Minoan name, as Davis treats the pair (Davis 2026, 44). Four attestations.

## In the onomasticon

- [PA-JA-RE](<https://linear-a.ai/names/PA-JA-RE/index.md>): Personal name, Egyptian

## References

- Reading: di Mino; Gordon 1966a; Ilin-Tomich 2025; DMic II; Davis 2026; Hess 1993
- Gordon, Cyrus H. (1966), Evidence for the Minoan Language. Ventnor Publishers,68
- DMic II: Aura Jorro, Francisco, Diccionario Micénico, vol. II (CSIC 1993). 
- Davis, Brent (2026), Recent Linguistics-Based Advances in the Study of Linear A. In E. Salgarella & V. Petrakis (eds.), The Wor(l)ds of Linear A, AURA Supplement 15, pp. 43–60
- Hess, Richard S. (1993), Amarna Personal Names. Eisenbrauns, Winona Lake (American Schools of Oriental Research Dissertation Series 9)
- PNM: Ilin-Tomich, Alexander (2025), Persons and Names of the Middle Kingdom (PNM), version 6. Zenodo (Freie Universität Berlin); CC BY 4.0

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