# SA-RA-RA (ṣarār-)

> bundle, bag (commodity or container)

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

- Reading: ṣarār-
- Confidence: Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once.
- Root: [\*ṣrr](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/3607/index.md>) 'bag, purse'
- Kind: Commodity
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: SA (sa) · RA (ra) · RA (ra)

## Compared forms

- Hebrew: צְרוֹר *ṣərôr* — צְרוֹר ṣərôr "little pack, bag" (HALOT 1054)
- Aramaic: *ṣərārā* — ṣərārā "bundle, bag"
- Ugaritic: 𐎎𐎕𐎗𐎗 *mṣrr* — mṣrr(t) 'a piece of fabric or a garment' (DULAT 581); 'bundle, parcel' (GlOS 2, 224)

## Attestations

- [HT 30](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT30/index.md>): SA-RA-RA ¹⁄₂

## Commentary

HT 30 .3 SA-RA-RA ½: three separate signs, both RA of the plain form (RA₂ in SA-RA₂ on .1), on a tablet written over an erasure, between QA2+[?]+PU ⅕ and *23M 1 (GORILA I 57). The tablet lists commodities with fractions and no names. Heb. I צְרוֹר 'little pack, bag', for money (Gen 42:35) and myrrh (Song 1:13), JArm. Syr. ṣərārā 'bundle, bag', Arab. ṣurrat 'purse' (HALOT 1054). Rival: a personal name (Heb. Šārār, 2 Sam 23:33), against the slot. One attestation.

## References

- Reading: HALOT 1054; DULAT 581; GlOS 2; di Mino
- 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
- 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
- GlOS 2: Sanmartín, Joaquín (2024), A Glossary of Old Syrian, Volume 2: l – z. Languages of the Ancient Near East 8/2,Eisenbrauns (Pennsylvania State University Press), University Park

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