# SI-DA-TE (ṣēdat)

> provisions (cf. Heb. ṣêdâ, travelling provision)

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

- Reading: ṣēdat
- Confidence: Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once.
- Root: [\*ṣyd ~ \*zwd](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/3505/index.md>) 'provisions for a journey; to provision'
- Kind: Commodity
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: SI (si) · DA (da) · TE (te)

## Compared forms

- Ugaritic: 𐎕𐎄 *ṣd* — ṣd 'provisions, sustenance' (Huehnergard 2012, glossary); ṣd (I) 'hunt, game' (DULAT 767)
- Hebrew: צֵידָה *ṣêdâ* — ṣêdâ (צֵידָה) 'provisions' (Gen 42:25, 45:21; Josh 1:11)
- Akkadian: *ṣidītu* — ṣidītu 'viaticum, travel provisions' (CAD Ṣ 172)

## Attestations

- [ARKH 2](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/ARKH2/index.md>): SI-DA-TE — provisions (heading)

## Commentary

ARKH 2 .1, intact: SI-DA-TE heads the tablet without a numeral over a must list, KU-RA *131B 5, then A-SI-DA-TO-I 12, ZU-*301-SE-DE-*21F-*118 6, A-SU-PU-WA 4, RU-MI[ (GORILA III 7). Heb. ṣêdâ 'food for a journey' (Gen 42:25; Josh 1:11; HALOT 1021), Ug. ṣd 'hunt, game' (DULAT 767). SI writes the i of Akk. ṣidītu 'viaticum, travel provisions' (CAD Ṣ 172), Heb. ṣêdâ the contracted ē; TE the feminine -t. Rival: a personal name or party heading, as on HT 20 and HT 16; cf. SI-DA-RE (HT 17, HT 122a). One attestation. See SE-*305 and MA-SI-DU.

## Same root

- [MA-SI-DU](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/MA-SI-DU/index.md>) (maṣīdu)
- [SE-\*305](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/SE-*305/index.md>) (ṣēdā)
- [SE-DE](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/SE-DE/index.md>) (ṣēd)

## References

- Reading: di Mino; HALOT; DULAT; CAD Ṣ
- Huehnergard, John (2012), An Introduction to Ugaritic. Hendrickson
- 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
- CAD Ṣ: Oriental Institute (A. Leo Oppenheim, ed.) (1962), The Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, vol. 16, Ṣ. The Oriental Institute, Chicago; J. J. Augustin, Glückstadt
- GORILA III: Godart, Louis; Olivier, Jean-Pierre (1976), Recueil des inscriptions en linéaire A, volume 3: Tablettes, nodules et rondelles édités en 1975 et 1976 (GORILA III). École française d'Athènes (Études crétoises XXI, 3); Librairie orientaliste Paul Geuthner, Paris

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