# SA-RA₂ (šarra) > queen/princess; by metonymy the queen's or royal establishment (recipient/institutional heading) A Linear A word in the Linear A Lexicon. The reading is a proposal and carries its tier. - Reading: šarra - Confidence: Candidate. A comparison worth testing; the evidence is thin or the word is rare. - Root: [\*ŝarr-]() 'king, prince, official' - Kind: Administrative - Language: Semitic - Signs: SA (sa) · RA₂ (ra₂) - Rank: #83 of the top 100 ## Compared forms - Akkadian: *šarratu* — šarratu (construct šarrat-) 'queen' - Amorite: *šarra* — šarra 'queen' (Gelb 1980, glossary); Nanni-šarra(t), a woman of Zimri-Lim's palace at Mari, written both ᵈna-an-ni-šar-ra and na-an-ni-šar-ra-at (Ziegler 1999, 278) - Hebrew: *śārâ* — śārâ 'princess' (Gen 17:15) - Linear A: *šarru* — SA-RU /šarru/ 'king/prince' and SA-RA /šarra/ 'queen/princess', the same title family ## Attestations - [HT 18](): SA-RA₂ GRA 10 — queen/princess or royal establishment - [HT 28a](): SA-RA₂ OLE+DI 1 — the queen or royal establishment; OLE+DI 1, figs 2, wine 3, VIR+KA-VIN 6 - [HT 28b](): SA-RA₂ GRA 20 — queen/princess or royal establishment - [HT 30](): SA-RA₂ CYP - [HT 32](): SA-RA₂ \*308 ¹⁄₂ - [HT 34](): SA-RA₂ MI+JA+KA - [HT 33](): SA-RA₂ \*401+\*304 - [HT 90](): SA-RA₂ GRA 20 — queen/princess or royal establishment - [HT 93a](): SA-RA₂ 20 — queen/princess or royal establishment - [HT 94a](): SA-RA₂ CYP 5 - [HT 97b](): SA-RA₂ — queen/princess or royal establishment - [HT 99a](): SA-RA₂ CYP 4 — queen/princess or royal establishment (recipient heading) - [HT 100](): SA-RA₂ CYP 5 ¹⁄₄ — queen/princess or royal establishment (recipient heading) - [HT 101](): SA-RA₂ GRA 41 — queen/princess or royal establishment (entity heading) - [HT 102](): SA-RA₂ GRA 976 — queen/princess or royal establishment: grain 976 - [HT 105](): SA-RA₂ VIR+\[?\] 235 - [HT 114a](): SA-RA₂ GRA 10 — queen/princess or royal establishment - [HT 121](): SA-RA₂ GRA 5 — queen/princess; by metonymy, the queen's establishment - [HT 125a](): SA-RA₂ GRA 2 — queen/princess or royal establishment(?) - [HT 130](): SA-RA₂ CYP ## Commentary Twenty Haghia Triada accounting tablets; on HT 125a ]SA-RA₂ stands at a broken edge. HT 105 sets KA-PA and SA-RA₂ in parallel before VIR 234 and 235; HT 100 and HT 94a put SA-RA₂ after a closed KU-RO and before a new commodity; HT 97b has SA-RA₂ alone, a docket or recipient label. Montecchi takes it as a sender, recipient or name and excludes a transactional sense (Montecchi 2008, 321). šarra 'queen, princess', the queen's establishment as recipient: Akk. šarratu 'queen' (CAD Š/2 72), Heb. śārâ 'woman of rank, princess' (HALOT 1354), Amorite šarra without -t, as the Mari name Nanni-šarra beside Nanni-šarrat (Ziegler 1999, 278; see SA-RA). RA₂ writes the geminate, as Linear B ra₂ writes rra, lla beside plain ra (Judson 2020, 74). Rivals: Šar-ra, a man's name at Alalakh (Niedorf 2008, 490); šeʾārā 'remainder' (√š-ʾ-r), where HT 30 and HT 34 write the deficit KI-RO; 'personnel', the 100 of HT 94a (Schrijver 2014, 26–29); 'rations' (Pope 1958, 16), against HT 105 SA-RA₂ VIR 235. ## Same root - [SA-RU]() (šarru) - [SA-RO]() (šarr) - [SA-RA]() (šarra) - [SA-RE-JU]() (Šarr-ēlu) ## In the onomasticon - [SA-RA₂](): Title, Semitic ## References - Reading: di Mino; Montecchi 2008; CAD Š/2; HALOT; Gelb 1980; Ziegler 1999; Judson 2020; Niedorf 2008; Schrijver 2014; Pope 1958 - AS 21: Gelb, Ignace J. (1980), Computer-aided Analysis of Amorite. Assyriological Studies 21,The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago - Judson, Anna P. (2020), The Undeciphered Signs of Linear B: Interpretation and Scribal Practices. Cambridge University Press (doi:10.1017/9781108859745; ISBN 9781108494724) - 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 - 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 - Montecchi, Barbara (2008), Note d'analisi testuale delle tavolette in Lineare A di Haghia Triada. Annuario della Scuola Archeologica di Atene e delle Missioni Italiane in Oriente,86, Serie III, 8,Scuola Archeologica Italiana di Atene (volume dated 2008, printed 2010),313–326 - Niedorf, Christian (2008), Die mittelbabylonischen Rechtsurkunden aus Alalaḫ (Schicht IV). Ugarit-Verlag, Münster (Alter Orient und Altes Testament 352) - Ziegler, Nele (1999), Florilegium marianum IV: Le Harem de Zimrî-Lîm. Mémoires de N.A.B.U. 5,SEPOA, Paris - Pope, Maurice (1958), On the Language of Linear A. Minos,6.1,Universidad de Salamanca,16–23 - Schrijver, Peter (2014), Fractions and food rations in Linear A. Kadmos,53 (1–2),Walter de Gruyter,1–44 --- Page: https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/SA-RA~E2~82~82/ 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 add28e94.