# QA-\*118-RA-RE (qaṭara(re))

> incense, incense-offering (Semitic cultic term)

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

- Reading: qaṭara(re)
- Confidence: Probable. Fits the word’s contexts and has a close external comparison, without an independent control.
- Root: [\*ḳuṭr-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/2544/index.md>) 'smoke, incense'
- Kind: Ritual
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: QA (qa) · \*118 · RA (ra) · RE (re)
- Rank: #78 of the top 100

## Compared forms

- Akkadian: *qatāru* — qatāru 'incense' (CAD Q 166)
- Hebrew: *qəṭōret* — qəṭōret 'incense, smoke of sacrifice' (HALOT 1095)
- Ugaritic: 𐎖𐎉𐎗 *qṭr* — qṭr 'smoke' (DULAT 709)
- Phoenician: 𐤒𐤈𐤓𐤕 *qṭrt* — qṭrt 'incense' (Krahmalkov 426)

## Attestations

- [HT 96b](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT96b/index.md>): QA-\*118-RA-RE \*516 GRA 40 ³⁄₄ — incense, incense-offering (√q-ṭ-r)

## Commentary

HT 96b (Haghia Triada, Casa Room 7, LM IB), a commodity tablet headed A-PA-RA-NE ·: QA-*118-RA-RE · *516 · GRA · 40¾, OLE+U 4, NI 2¹⁄₁₀, a large allocation of grain and oil. qaṭara(re) 'incense, incense-offering', √q-ṭ-r 'to smoke, burn incense', with *118 read ṭa, a proposed value: Heb. qəṭōret 'incense' (HALOT 1095), beside Akk. qutru 'smoke' and qutrinnu 'incense, censer' (HALOT 1095), Arabic qaṭara 'to drop, distill'. -RA writes the root's r and -RE an ending, or the noun pattern qaṭṭāra. Weak point: *118 = ṭa holds only once the DA and TA doublets are set aside, and standing alone before a numeral *118 is the talent sign. With t, the root is the same: Akk. qatāru 'to make an incense offering' (CAD Q 166) writes *q-ṭ-r with t by Geers' law (Huehnergard 1997, 588). One attestation. See QI-TI-RI.

## Same root

- [QI-TI-RI](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/QI-TI-RI/index.md>) (qiṭrī)

## References

- Reading: di Mino
- Krahmalkov: Krahmalkov, Charles R. (2000), A Phoenician-Punic Dictionary. Peeters (Leuven)
- Huehnergard, John (1997), A Grammar of Akkadian. Scholars Press (Harvard Semitic Studies 45)
- 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
- CAD Q: Oriental Institute (Erica Reiner, ed.) (1982), The Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, vol. 13, Q. The Oriental Institute, Chicago; J. J. Augustin, Glückstadt

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