# RA-O-DI-KI (rāʿû diqqi)

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

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

- Reading: rāʿû diqqi
- Confidence: Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once.
- Root: [\*rVʕVy- 1, \*rāʕ- 2](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/454/index.md>) 'pasture, guard livestock, herd, graze (trans.)' (v.) 1, 'herdsman' 2
- Kind: Personnel
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: RA (ra) · O (o) · DI (di) · KI (ki)

## Compared forms

- Arabic: huwa rāʿī ad-daqāʾiq 'he is the pastor of sheep, or goats'; daqīqa 'small cattle', opposed to jalīla 'camels' (Lane 896)
- Ugaritic: *rʕy* — rʕy 'shepherd' (DULAT 716); dqt 'sacrificial ewe, sheep' (DULAT 276)
- Akkadian: rēʾû, rāʾû 'herdsman, shepherd'; reʾû unīqi 'shepherd of she-kids' (CAD R 303)

## Attestations

- [PH 2](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/PH2/index.md>): RA-O-DI-KI 60 — herdsman 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.

## Same root

- [RO-E](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/RO-E/index.md>) (rōʿē)

## In the onomasticon

- [RA-O-DI-KI](<https://linear-a.ai/names/RA-O-DI-KI/index.md>): Title, Semitic

## References

- Reading: di Mino; Lane; DULAT; CAD
- CAD D: Oriental Institute (A. Leo Oppenheim, ed.) (1959), The Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, vol. D. 
- 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
- Lane: Lane, Edward William (1863), An Arabic-English Lexicon. Williams and Norgate, London
- CAD R: Oriental Institute (Erica Reiner and Martha T. Roth, eds.) (1999), The Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, vol. 14, R. The Oriental Institute, Chicago
- GORILA I: Godart, Louis; Olivier, Jean-Pierre (1976), Recueil des inscriptions en linéaire A, volume 1: Tablettes éditées avant 1970 (GORILA I). École française d'Athènes (Études crétoises XXI, 1); Librairie orientaliste Paul Geuthner, Paris
- Monti, Luciano Esteban (2017), A Systematic Approach to the Hurrian Pantheon: The Onomastic Evidence. PhD dissertation, Università degli Studi di Udine (XXVIII cycle)

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