# PI-\*310-A (pīnā)

> face, front

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

- Reading: pīnā
- Confidence: Candidate. A comparison worth testing; the evidence is thin or the word is rare.
- Root: [\*pan-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/144/index.md>) 'face'
- Kind: Body part
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: PI (pi) · \*310 · A (a)

## Compared forms

- Hebrew: **pāneh* — *pāneh 'face, front', only in the plural pānîm (HALOT 938)
- Ugaritic: 𐎔𐎐𐎎 *pnm* — pnm 'face, countenance', also as a preposition (DULAT 664)

## Attestations

- [ZA 11a](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/ZA11a/index.md>): PI-\*310-A

## Commentary

ZA 11a, after KU-PA · GRA+PA 1, heading OLIV 2. With *310 at the proposed value IN, PI-IN-A writes pīnā 'face, front', the pin- of I-PI-NA-MA ʾippina=ma 'in the presence of': Heb. pānîm 'face' (HALOT 938), Ug. pnm 'face' (DULAT 664).

## Same root

- [I-PI-NA-MA](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/I-PI-NA-MA/index.md>) (ʾippina=ma)
- [I-PI-NA-MI-NA](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/I-PI-NA-MI-NA/index.md>) (ʾippina=mi=na)

## References

- Reading: di Mino; HALOT; DULAT
- HALOT: Koehler, Ludwig; Baumgartner, Walter; Stamm, Johann Jakob; Richardson, M. E. J. (trans. and ed.) (1994), The Hebrew and Aramaic Lexicon of the Old Testament, vols. I–IV. E. J. Brill, Leiden · New York · Köln
- 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

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