SA-*305-MI

terrace, terraced field (a counted entry); rival the place Šdmy

𐘞SAAB3148 entries𐙙*305*3056 entries𐘻MIAB7345 entries
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Reading
šadmi
Confidence
Speculative
Root
*šdm ‘terrace’ 1, ‘field, territory’ 2
Kind
Administrative
Language
Semitic
Rank
—

Compared forms

  • Ugaritic𐎌𐎄𐎎𐎚šdmtšdmt ‘terrace’ (KTU 1.23:10; DULAT 799); Šdmy, a town of Ugarit (KTU 4.244:13)
  • Hebrewšᵊdēmâšᵊdēmâ ‘terrace, field’, pl. šadmôt (Deut 32:32; Isa 16:8; 2 Kgs 23:4; HALOT 1422–1423)

Attestations1 cited

  1. PE 2SA-*305-MI 1 ¹⁄₈

Commentary

PE 2 .2 SA-*305-MI 1⅛, after RU-PI ⅓, in a list of entries with fractions. šadmi ‘terrace’: Ug. šdmt, yšql šdmth km gpn ‘they threw it on the terrace like a vine-stock’ (KTU 1.23:10; DULAT 799), Heb. šᵊdēmâ, pl. šadmôt, the terraced vineyards of Deut 32:32 and Isa 16:8 (HALOT 1422–1423); *305 da. Rival: the town Šdmy on the border with Alalakh, krm PN b šdmy ‘the vineyard of PN at Šdmy’ (KTU 4.244:13; RGTC 12/2, 255). The first sign is SA (AB31), a fork with no crossbar. One attestation.

On the 3D inscriptions

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

Linear A Lexicon