PI-TA-RA
trade agents, deputies, a personnel group drawing grain; rivals bitāri 'portions' and the names Paṭir, Batūl
- Reading
- bidāla
- Confidence
- Speculative
- Root
- *badal- ‘exchange’, ‘separate’
- Kind
- Personnel
- Language
- Semitic
- Rank
- —
Compared forms
- Ugaritic𐎁𐎄𐎍bdlbdl(m) ‘substitute, lieutenant, a kind of (sales) representative’; syllabic LÚ.MEŠ DAM.GÀR : bi-da-lu-ma ‘merchants’ (GlOS 1, 110)
- Eblaiteba-da-lum baddālba-da-lum baddāl ‘merchant’ (GlOS 1, 110)
- Emarrival bi-it-rurival bi-it-ru ‘portion’, pl. bi-ta-ri (GlOS 1, 130)
- Amoriterival PAṬIR-UM Paṭirum ‘released’ (Gelb 1980, no. 1151); BATUL-UM Batūlum ‘bachelor’ (no. 1153)
Attestations1 cited
- HT 96aPI-TA-RA 1trade agents, a personnel group drawing grain; rivals bitāri 'portions', a recipient's name
Commentary
HT 96a .4 PI-TA-RA · 1, whole, in a grain list after SI-MI-TA GRA 5, RU-SA 4, *323-*317 1 and before *323-*344 1 (GORILA I 157). bi-da-la, the sign sequence of Ugarit bi-da-lu-ma, glossing LÚ.MEŠ DAM.GÀR ‘merchants’, and of the name DUMU-bi-da-la-ya (RS 15.0009); Ebla ba-da-lum ‘merchant’ (GlOS 1, 110). A body of agents drawing grain, cf. MA-KA-RI-TE ‘merchants’ (HT 117a). Rivals: bitāri ‘portions’, Emar bi-ta-ri (GlOS 1, 130); the name Paṭir ‘released’ (Gelb 1980, no. 1151; Ebla ba-du-ri₂, Pagan 1998, row 1090), with PI for pa; the name Batūl ‘bachelor’ (Gelb 1980, no. 1153); Ug. btlt ‘virgin’ (DULAT 248), for which the slot gives no cue. One witness.
On the 3D inscriptions
Not written on any of the 82 inscriptions modelled so far.