# SA-\*305-MI (šadmi)

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

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

- Reading: šadmi
- Confidence: Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once.
- Root: [\*šdm](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/4410/index.md>) 'terrace' 1, 'field, territory' 2
- Kind: Administrative
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: SA (sa) · \*305 · MI (mi)

## Compared forms

- Ugaritic: 𐎌𐎄𐎎𐎚 *šdmt* — šdmt 'terrace' (KTU 1.23:10; DULAT 799); Šdmy, a town of Ugarit (KTU 4.244:13)
- Hebrew: *šᵊdēmâ* — šᵊdēmâ 'terrace, field', pl. šadmôt (Deut 32:32; Isa 16:8; 2 Kgs 23:4; HALOT 1422–1423)

## Attestations

- [PE 2](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/PE2/index.md>): SA-\*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.

## References

- Reading: di Mino; DULAT 799; HALOT 1422–1423; RGTC 12/2
- KTU: Dietrich, Manfried; Loretz, Oswald; Sanmartín, Joaquín (2013), Die keilalphabetischen Texte aus Ugarit, Ras Ibn Hani und anderen Orten / The Cuneiform Alphabetic Texts from Ugarit, Ras Ibn Hani and Other Places (KTU³). Ugarit-Verlag, Münster (Alter Orient und Altes Testament 360/1); ISBN 978-3-86835-014-2
- 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
- RGTC 12/2: Belmonte Marín, Juan Antonio (2001), Die Orts- und Gewässernamen der Texte aus Syrien im 2. Jt. v. Chr.. Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag, Wiesbaden (Répertoire Géographique des Textes Cunéiformes 12/2; Beihefte zum Tübinger Atlas des Vorderen Orients B 7/12/2)

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