# SA-MA-TI (Ṣamidi)

> personal name, 'Harnessed'; cf. Amorite Ṣamidum

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

- Reading: Ṣamidi
- Confidence: Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once.
- Root: [\*ṣ̂VmVd-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/411/index.md>) 'bind, yoke, harness' 1, 'join, unite (in a pact)' 2, 'mace, club' 3
- Kind: Personal name
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: SA (sa) · MA (ma) · TI (ti)

## Compared forms

- Amorite: ṢAMID-UM (ZA-MI-DU-UM), a woman's name (Gelb 1980, no. 6398); ṢMD 'to bind, to harness' (Gelb 1980, 34)
- Ugaritic: 𐎕𐎎𐎄 *ṣmd* — ṣmd 'pair; yoked pair; (horse) team' (DULAT 773)
- Akkadian: *rival samīdu* — rival samīdu B '(a type of groats)' (CAD S 115)

## Attestations

- [HT 39](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT39/index.md>): SA-MA-TI 10

## Commentary

HT 39 .3 SA-MA-TI 10, then KU-RE[ (GORILA I 75), complete at the left edge. The list runs TA-I-*123 10[, KU-RE-JU 8, KU[, SA-MA-TI 10, KU-RE[, then KU-RO *414+A 100[. SA-MA-TI takes no commodity sign and stands among names. It writes Ṣamidi, cf. the Amorite woman's name ṢAMID-UM (Gelb 1980, no. 6398) and Amorite ṢMD 'to bind, to harness' (Gelb 1980, 34), Ug. ṣmd 'yoked pair'. Weak point: TI for di. Rival: Akk. samīdu B, a groats (CAD S 115), which needs a commodity slot. One attestation.

## In the onomasticon

- [SA-MA-TI](<https://linear-a.ai/names/SA-MA-TI/index.md>): Personal name, Semitic

## References

- Reading: di Mino; Gelb 1980; DULAT; CAD S
- AS 21: Gelb, Ignace J. (1980), Computer-aided Analysis of Amorite. Assyriological Studies 21,The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago
- 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
- CAD S: Oriental Institute (Erica Reiner, ed.) (1984), The Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, vol. 15, S. The Oriental Institute, Chicago; J. J. Augustin, Glückstadt
- 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

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