SA-JA-MA

setting, arrangement; a set/group (of vessels)—deverbal noun from √ś-y-m 'to place, set'

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Reading: śaymā
Confidence: Speculative
Root: *śVyVm- ‘place’
Kind: Administrative
Language: Semitic
Rank: —

Compared forms

Hebrew(שִׂיםśāmśīm/śām (שִׂים/שָׂם) ‘to set, place’
Amarnasīmsīm ‘placing’, under West Semitic influence (Moran, EA 155 n. 1); sīm lēb (EA 139 n. 8)

Attestations1 cited

HT 31 3DSA-JA-MA 30set, arrangement (of vessels): 30[

Commentary

HT 31 .3, after *416-VS-KA-RO-PA₃ 10: SA-JA-MA 30[, two tens visible and the surface lost after them. MA is the last sign. The five vessel names on the tablet stand over their logograms; SA-JA-MA stands without one, as KI-DE-MA-*323-NA does on .4. A noun /śaymā/ of √ś-y-m ‘to set, place’ (Heb. śîm, Amarna sīm); JA writes the y. Gordon (1975, 153 n. 13) read sa-ya-ma-n[a] ‘silver’, after Aramaic סים: the tablet has no NA, and Jastrow (1903, 980) derives סִימָא ‘silver’ from Persian. Rival: a vessel name written without its logogram. Hapax. See SI-MI-TA.

On the 3D inscriptions1 inscription

HT 31Haghia Triada…sa-ja-ma