PA-SA-RI-JA

the Baṣirean, gentilic of Baṣīru, a town of Ugarit (Ug. bṣry): a wool section heading

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Reading
Baṣariya
Confidence
Speculative
Root
*bVṣVr- ‘be inaccessible’
Kind
Toponym
Language
Semitic
Rank
—

Compared forms

  • Ugariticbṣr, a town of Ugarit, syllabic URU ba-ṣi-ri, RS 25.455 A+B I 10, ‘inaccessible place’ (Watson, apud DULAT 240); gentilic bṣry (DULAT 240)
  • Akkadian*Baṣīru (RGTC 12/2, 53)

Attestations1 cited

  1. HT 24aPA-SA-RI-JA MA+RU-ME-[the Baṣirean, gentilic of Baṣīru, a town of Ugarit: second section heading

Commentary

HT 24a .4 PA-SA-RI-JA ·, all four signs whole, heads the second wool section as KU-PA₃-RI-JA Kubariya heads the first (GORILA I 43). Baṣīru, a town of Ugarit: alphabetic bṣr, gentilic bṣry, syllabic URU ba-ṣi-ri (DULAT 240; RGTC 12/2, 53). Both towns stand in the same lists: RS 25.455A+ I 4 and I 10, KTU 4.800 II 18 and II 29. PA for b; -JA the gentilic -iya, as bṣry. One document.

On the 3D inscriptions

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

Linear A Lexicon