# QI-TI-RI (qiṭrī) > my incense (ritual term) A Linear A word in the Linear A Lexicon. The reading is a proposal and carries its tier. - Reading: qiṭrī - Confidence: Probable. Fits the word’s contexts and has a close external comparison, without an independent control. - Root: [\*ḳuṭr-]() 'smoke, incense' - Kind: Ritual - Language: Semitic - Signs: QI (qi) · TI (ti) · RI (ri) - Rank: #79 of the top 100 ## Compared forms - Hebrew: *qiṭṭēr* — qiṭṭēr 'to burn incense', qəṭōret 'incense' - Egyptian: group writing qu₄-da-ru₂-ta 'incense' (GlOS 1, 359, after Hoch, SWET 305, no. 440) ## Attestations - [KN Zc 6](): \*34-TI-RI — my incense ## Commentary KN Zc 6, an ink-inscribed clay cup from a sanctuary deposit above the Basement of the Monolithic Pillars, Knossos: .1 *34-TI-RI, .2 A-DI DA-KI-TI 'until fine' (Lev 16:12 qəṭōret … daqqâ). qiṭrī 'my incense', *34 read QI, TI for ṭi, with the 1cs possessive suffix -ī: Heb. qiṭṭēr 'to burn incense' (HALOT 1094), qəṭōret 'incense' (HALOT 1095). Rival: ʿiṭrī 'my scent', *34 for ʿi: Heb. ʿătar 'smell (of incense)' (Ezek 8:11), Arb. ʿiṭr 'scent' (HALOT 906). Weak point: *34 = qi is a proposed value. One attestation. See QA-*118-RA-RE. ## Same root - [QA-\*118-RA-RE]() (qaṭara(re)) ## References - Reading: di Mino; HALOT; GlOS 1 - 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 - 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 --- Page: https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/QI-TI-RI/ 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.