# SA-TA (Šata)

> Šata (personal name, heading the second section); rival śadā '(those of) the field'

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

- Reading: Šata
- Confidence: Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once.
- Kind: Personal name
- Language: Hurrian
- Signs: SA (sa) · TA (ta)

## Compared forms

- Nuzi: ŠATA, Ša-a-ta, var. Ša-ta, f. of Urḫi-tešup (NPN 126)
- Ugaritic: 𐎌𐎄 *šd* — šd (I) 'open field; field, plot, estate' (DULAT 795), the rival

## Attestations

- [HT 117a](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT117a/index.md>): SA-TA — Šata (personal name, heading the second section; Nuzi Ša-ta); rival śadā '(those of) the field'

## Commentary

HT 117a .7 SA-TA ·, whole and undotted, heading the second section over five names with 1 each, in the place MA-KA-RI-TE · KI-RO · U-MI-NA-SI holds in the first (GORILA I 197). ša-ta on primary values, sign for sign as the Nuzi name Ša-a-ta, Ša-ta (NPN 126), which NPN files under the Hurrian element šat (NPN 252). Rival: śadā '(those of) the field', TA writing d as the T class allows, the root of SA-DI šadī (#1804; DULAT 795), since HT 87 and HT 117b put group terms in this slot. One witness.

## In the onomasticon

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

## References

- Reading: di Mino; NPN
- NPN: Gelb, Ignace J.; Purves, Pierre M.; MacRae, Allan A. (1943), Nuzi Personal Names. Oriental Institute Publications 57, 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
- 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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