# SA-RO (šarr)

> king; the king's account (heading and recipient)

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

- Reading: šarr
- Confidence: Candidate. A comparison worth testing; the evidence is thin or the word is rare.
- Root: [\*ŝarr-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/3463/index.md>) 'king, prince, official'
- Kind: Administrative
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: SA (sa) · RO (ro)

## Compared forms

- Akkadian: *šarrum* — šarrum 'king'
- Hebrew: שַׂר *śar* — śar (שַׂר) 'prince, ruler, chief' (HALOT 1351)
- Ugaritic: 𐎌𐎗 *šr* — šr 'king, prince' (an Akkadian administrative loan)

## Attestations

- [HT 9a](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT9a/index.md>): SA-RO TE VIN — the king's account (heading)
- [HT 17](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT17/index.md>): SA-RO 10 — the king's account
- [HT 19](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT19/index.md>): SA-RO 5 ¹⁄₂ — the king's account
- [HT 42+59](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT42~2B59/index.md>): SA-RO OLE+KI 8 — the king's account (oil)

## Commentary

HT 9a SA-RO · TE · VIN · heads a wine list, the slot RA-*164-TI holds on HT 17 and HT 19, where SA-RO 10 and SA-RO 5½ stand under VIN; HT 42+59 has SA-RO OLE+KI 8, OLE+U 2. GORILA V 295 reads the second sign as A 315 = Linear B RO₂ (Schrijver 2014, 10 n. 9), its foot traced on HT 17.2 and 19.2, one wine series (Montecchi 2010, 23), plain RO on HT 9a.1 and 42+59. Linear B ro₂ writes /rro, llo/ and alternates with ro (Judson 2020, 74), as RA₂ writes the geminate of SA-RA₂ šarra: šarr 'king', the O vowel dead as in KU-RO kull (Rendsburg 2026, 203 n. 4). SA-RO (4 tablets) and SA-RA₂ (20) never share a tablet. Schrijver takes sa-ro₂ for a variant of sa-ra₂ (2014, 10 n. 9).

## Same root

- [SA-RA₂](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/SA-RA~E2~82~82/index.md>) (šarra)
- [SA-RU](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/SA-RU/index.md>) (šarru)
- [SA-RA](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/SA-RA/index.md>) (šarra)
- [SA-RE-JU](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/SA-RE-JU/index.md>) (Šarr-ēlu)

## In the onomasticon

- [SA-RO](<https://linear-a.ai/names/SA-RO/index.md>): Title, Semitic

## References

- Reading: di Mino; GORILA V; Schrijver 2014; Montecchi 2010; Judson 2020; Rendsburg 2026
- Judson, Anna P. (2020), The Undeciphered Signs of Linear B: Interpretation and Scribal Practices. Cambridge University Press (doi:10.1017/9781108859745; ISBN 9781108494724)
- GORILA V: Godart, Louis; Olivier, Jean-Pierre (1985), Recueil des inscriptions en linéaire A, volume 5: Addenda, corrigenda, concordances, index et planches des signes (GORILA V). École française d'Athènes (Études crétoises XXI, 5); Librairie orientaliste Paul Geuthner, Paris
- 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
- Montecchi, Barbara (2010), A Classification Proposal of Linear A Tablets from Haghia Triada in Classes and Series. Kadmos,49,Walter de Gruyter,11–38
- Schrijver, Peter (2014), Fractions and food rations in Linear A. Kadmos,53 (1–2),Walter de Gruyter,1–44
- Rendsburg, Gary A. (2026), Across the Mediterranean: Ugaritic Words which Reached Greek and Latin. In Colasuonno, Maria Maddalena; Criscuolo, Alfredo; D'Anna, Luca; Esposito, Raffaele; Lusini, Gianfrancesco; Nicosia, Mara (eds.), Forty Years of Semitic Philology: Studies in Honour of Riccardo Contini, Offered by Friends and Colleagues on the Occasion of His Seventieth Birthday, Volume II,Series Minor CX.2; Serie Orientale Roma n.s. 57.2,UniorPress, Napoli,201–219

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