# PA₃-KA-RA-TI (baqarāti) > cattle, heifers (fem.pl.) A Linear A word in the Linear A Lexicon. The reading is a proposal and carries its tier. - Reading: baqarāti - Confidence: Candidate. A comparison worth testing; the evidence is thin or the word is rare. - Root: [\*baḳar-]() 'large cattle' - Kind: Animal - Language: Semitic - Signs: PA₃ (pa₃) · KA (ka) · RA (ra) · TI (ti) - Rank: #18 of the top 100 ## Compared forms - Ugaritic: 𐎁𐎖𐎗 *bqr* — bqr 'cattle' (GlOS 1, 117) - Emar: ba-qa-ra, bu-qà-ri 'cattle' (GlOS 1, 117) ## Attestations - [HT 8a](): PA₃-KA-RA-TI 1 ¹⁄₂ — cattle, heifers (fem. pl.) ## Commentary HT 8a .1–2 JE-DI · OLE+KI 10 PA₃ | KA-RA-TI 1½: PA₃ is the last sign of line 1, KA-RA-TI the first of line 2, in a list sharing out 10 units of oil. Hebrew bāqār, fem.pl. -āti. Rival: PA₃ a transaction sign closing line 1 and KA-RA-TI a recipient (GORILA V apud Schrijver 2014, 7 n. 6). HT 8b opens its second section the same way, 5 · PA₃ · *188 2, and PA₃ stands alone on HT 34.6 (PA₃ 70, KI-RO 30 = SA+MU+KU 100), HT 9b, 93a and 132. One attestation. ## References - Reading: di Mino; GlOS 1; Schrijver 2014 - GORILA V: Godart, Louis; Olivier, Jean-Pierre (1985), Recueil des inscriptions en linéaire A, volume 5: Addenda, corrigenda, concordances, index et planches des signes (GORILA V). École française d'Athènes (Études crétoises XXI, 5); Librairie orientaliste Paul Geuthner, Paris - GlOS 1: Sanmartín, Joaquín (2019), A Glossary of Old Syrian, Volume 1: ʔ – ḳ. Languages of the Ancient Near East 8/1,Eisenbrauns (Pennsylvania State University Press), University Park - Schrijver, Peter (2014), Fractions and food rations in Linear A. Kadmos,53 (1–2),Walter de Gruyter,1–44 --- Page: https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/PA~E2~82~83-KA-RA-TI/ Licence: CC BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Cite as: di Mino, Tom. 2026. Linear A Lexicon. Plasma AI. https://linear-a.ai/. Data: kaphtor, commit add28e94.