# SI-\*516 (si-SIPRU) > the account/record (phonetic complement + logogram) A Linear A word in the Linear A Lexicon. The reading is a proposal and carries its tier. - Reading: si-SIPRU - Confidence: Candidate. A comparison worth testing; the evidence is thin or the word is rare. - Root: [\*sapVr-]() 'to count, recount, inscribe' - Kind: Administrative - Language: Semitic - Signs: SI (si) · \*516 ## Compared forms - Ugaritic: 𐎒𐎔𐎗 *spr* — spr (II) 'tablet, register, list, inventory; record of tribute' (DULAT 756) - Hebrew: *sēper* — sēper 'inscription, letter, scroll' (HALOT 766) - Phoenician: 𐤎𐤐𐤓 *spr* — spr 'inscription; document' (Krahmalkov 347) ## Attestations - [HT 34](): DA-JU-TE SI-\*516 ## Commentary HT 34 DA-JU-TE · SI-*516 ·, the heading, before SA-RA₂ · MI+JA+KA. SI is a phonetic complement giving the s- onset of the logogram *516, its proposed value SIPRU, as PA₃ gives the b- of BUṬNU in PA₃-*188. Ug. spr /sipru/, pl. sprm /siparūma/ 'document' (Huehnergard 2012, 42), BH sēper. One attestation. ## Same root - [\*516]() (šipru) ## References - Reading: di Mino; Huehnergard 2012 - Huehnergard, John (2012), An Introduction to Ugaritic. Hendrickson - Krahmalkov: Krahmalkov, Charles R. (2000), A Phoenician-Punic Dictionary. Peeters (Leuven) - 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 --- Page: https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/SI-*516/ 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.