# PA-SA-RI-JA (Baṣariya)

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

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

- Reading: Baṣariya
- Confidence: Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once.
- Root: [\*bVṣVr-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/2875/index.md>) 'be inaccessible'
- Kind: Toponym
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: PA (pa) · SA (sa) · RI (ri) · JA (ja)

## Compared forms

- Ugaritic: bṣr, 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)

## Attestations

- [HT 24a](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT24a/index.md>): PA-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.

## In the onomasticon

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

## References

- Reading: di Mino; DULAT; RGTC 12/2
- KTU: Dietrich, Manfried; Loretz, Oswald; Sanmartín, Joaquín (2013), Die keilalphabetischen Texte aus Ugarit, Ras Ibn Hani und anderen Orten / The Cuneiform Alphabetic Texts from Ugarit, Ras Ibn Hani and Other Places (KTU³). Ugarit-Verlag, Münster (Alter Orient und Altes Testament 360/1); ISBN 978-3-86835-014-2
- 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
- RGTC 12/2: Belmonte Marín, Juan Antonio (2001), Die Orts- und Gewässernamen der Texte aus Syrien im 2. Jt. v. Chr.. Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag, Wiesbaden (Répertoire Géographique des Textes Cunéiformes 12/2; Beihefte zum Tübinger Atlas des Vorderen Orients B 7/12/2)

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