# SA-QE-RI (Šaqeli)

> personal name, from √š-q-l 'to weigh'

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

- Reading: Šaqeli
- Confidence: Candidate. A comparison worth testing; the evidence is thin or the word is rare.
- Root: [\*ṯVḳVl-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/2961/index.md>) 'weigh' 1, 'shekel, weight (unit)' 2
- Kind: Personal name
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: SA (sa) · QE (qe) · RI (ri)
- Rank: Amorite-linked appendix

## Compared forms

- Ugaritic: 𐎘𐎖𐎍 *ṯql* — ṯql 'shekel' (DULAT 914)
- Hebrew: *šāqal* — šāqal 'weigh' (HALOT 1642); šeqel 'weight, shekel' (HALOT 1643)
- Akkadian: *šaqālu* — šaqālu 'to weigh, balance, pay' (CAD Š/2 1)
- Phoenician: 𐤌𐤔𐤒𐤋 *mšql* — mšql 'weight'; šql 'fixed weight, shekel' (Krahmalkov 318, 480)
- Amorite: ŠQL 'weigh': šiqlum (Gelb AS 21, 33); PN ŠIQL-AN-UM (Gelb AS 21 no. 5532)

## Attestations

- [HT 11b](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT11b/index.md>): SA-QE-RI KA 30 — personal name (√š-q-l 'to weigh')

## Commentary

HT11b SA-QE-RI · KA 30, the last of five KA entries summed to KU-RO 180: a recipient, so a name. Šaqeli on √š-q-l 'to weigh': SA writes š, and RI the l, as Linear A writes r and l alike. Names on the root: Amorite ŠIQL-AN-U, ŠIQL-AN-UM, ŠIQL-IM (Gelb 1980, nos. 5881–5883; glossary ŠQL 'to weigh'); Akkadian Šaqilia (ORACC P514274) and Šiqila (ORACC Q003427, Q006330).

## In the onomasticon

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

## References

- Reading: di Mino; Gelb 1980
- ORACC: Oracc Steering Committee, Oracc: The Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus. University of Pennsylvania Museum; CC BY-SA 3.0 unless otherwise stated
- Krahmalkov: Krahmalkov, Charles R. (2000), A Phoenician-Punic Dictionary. Peeters (Leuven)
- AS 21: Gelb, Ignace J. (1980), Computer-aided Analysis of Amorite. Assyriological Studies 21,The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago
- 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
- CAD Š/2: Oriental Institute (Erica Reiner, ed.) (1992), The Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, vol. 17, Š, part 2. The Oriental Institute, Chicago; J. J. Augustin, Glückstadt

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