# SA-JA-MA (śaymā) > setting, arrangement; a set/group (of vessels)—deverbal noun from √ś-y-m 'to place, set' A Linear A word in the Linear A Lexicon. The reading is a proposal and carries its tier. - Reading: śaymā - Confidence: Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once. - Root: [\*śVyVm-]() 'place' - Kind: Administrative - Language: Semitic - Signs: SA (sa) · JA (ja) · MA (ma) ## Compared forms - Hebrew: (שִׂים *śām* — śīm/śām (שִׂים/שָׂם) 'to set, place' - Amarna: *sīm* — sīm 'placing', under West Semitic influence (Moran, EA 155 n. 1); sīm lēb (EA 139 n. 8) ## Attestations - [HT 31](): SA-JA-MA 30 — set, 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. ## Same root - [SI-MI-TA]() (Śīmat) ## References - Reading: di Mino - Gordon, Cyrus H. (1975), The Decipherment of Minoan and Eteocretan. Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland,148–158 - EA: Moran, William L. (1992), The Amarna Letters. Johns Hopkins University Press - Jastrow: Jastrow, Marcus (1903), A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature. Luzac & Co., London; G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York; 2 vols --- Page: https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/SA-JA-MA/ Licence: CC BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Cite as: di Mino, Tom. 2026. Linear A Lexicon. Plasma AI. https://linear-a.ai/. Data: kaphtor, commit 50525edd.