# PA-SE-JA (Paššiya)

> Paššiya (personal name; Hurrian hypocoristic on pašš- 'send')

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

- Reading: Paššiya
- Confidence: Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once.
- Kind: Personal name
- Language: Hurrian
- Signs: PA (pa) · SE (se) · JA (ja)

## Compared forms

- Nuzi: PAŠŠIJA, Pa-aš-ši-ia, two bearers, one the son of Pula-ḫali who also bears Pašši-tilla (Gelb, Purves, and MacRae 1943, 112); "Hypocoristic for Paššip-tilla" (ibid., 243)
- Hurrian: *pašš-* — pašš- 'mander', Mitanni letter pa-aš-ši-en; paššithi 'messager' (Laroche 1980, 197–99); PN Paššitḫe, pa-aš-ši-it-ḫe 'messenger' (Karana; Monti 2017, 392)

## Attestations

- [HT Wc 3001](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HTWc3001/index.md>): PA-SE-JA ¹⁄₂
- [HT Wc 3002](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HTWc3002/index.md>): PA-SE-JA

## Commentary

The matched roundel pair HT Wc 3001 (PA-SE-JA ½) and HT Wc 3002 (PA-SE-JA), Scribe 107 (GORILA II 72): one context. Uncounted: HT 93a .8 ]PA-SE-JA 20, broken before, PA dotted, or ]PI-SE-JA (GORILA I 147). The base PA-SE Pašše heads HT 18 and stands on HT 27b as an entry parallel to MI-DA (· VIN+WA · SA n): name and -ya short form in one archive, as Pašši-tilla and Paššiya at Nuzi. SE writes the stem vowel i. Cf. LB pa-sa-ja, a spice recipient (KN Ga 953).

## In the onomasticon

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

## References

- Reading: di Mino; Gelb, Purves, and MacRae 1943; Laroche 1980; Monti 2017
- GLH: Laroche, Emmanuel (1980), Glossaire de la langue hourrite. Editions Klincksieck
- NPN: Gelb, Ignace J.; Purves, Pierre M.; MacRae, Allan A. (1943), Nuzi Personal Names. Oriental Institute Publications 57, University of Chicago
- 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
- GORILA II: Godart, Louis; Olivier, Jean-Pierre (1979), Recueil des inscriptions en linéaire A, volume 2: Nodules, scellés et rondelles édités avant 1970 (GORILA II). École française d'Athènes (Études crétoises XXI, 2); Librairie orientaliste Paul Geuthner, Paris
- Monti, Luciano Esteban (2017), A Systematic Approach to the Hurrian Pantheon: The Onomastic Evidence. PhD dissertation, Università degli Studi di Udine (XXVIII cycle)

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