RA-O-DI-KI

herdsman of the small cattle (title, over a flock of 60); rival a personal name

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Reading
rāʿû diqqi
Confidence
Speculative
Root
*rVʕVy- 1, *rāʕ- 2 ‘pasture, guard livestock, herd, graze…’
Kind
Personnel
Language
Semitic
Rank
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Compared forms

  • Arabichuwa rāʿī ad-daqāʾiq ‘he is the pastor of sheep, or goats’; daqīqa ‘small cattle’, opposed to jalīla ‘camels’ (Lane 896)
  • Ugariticrʕyrʕy ‘shepherd’ (DULAT 716); dqt ‘sacrificial ewe, sheep’ (DULAT 276)
  • Akkadianrēʾû, rāʾû ‘herdsman, shepherd’; reʾû unīqi ‘shepherd of she-kids’ (CAD R 303)

Attestations1 cited

  1. PH 2RA-O-DI-KI 60herdsman of the small cattle (title), 60; rival a personal name

Commentary

PH 2 .1–2 RA-O-DI-KI 60, RA at the end of .1, under A-SE-TU-*21F (the female small-cattle sign) and beside PI-RU-E-JU 60 and SE-SA-PA₃ 60 (GORILA I 288–289). rāʿû diqqi: the contracted nominative rāʿû < *rāʿiyu ‘herdsman’, O writing ʿu, and the genitive diqqi of *diqq- ‘small (cattle)’, as in KA-NI-JA-MI qāniy-yammi. The same root as RO-E rōʿē (PH 24). Akkadian has the masculine noun diqqu ‘small one’ (CAD D 159), Ugaritic the masculine dq ‘tiny, fine’ (DULAT 275). Weak point: the spelling differs from RO-E. Rivals: a personal name; Hurrian -tiki (Papan-tiki, Monti 2017, 411), which leaves RA-O unread. One witness.

On the 3D inscriptions

Not written on any of the 82 inscriptions modelled so far.

Linear A Lexicon