# SI-DI-JA (Šadiya)

> personal name, Ugaritic Šadiya (šdy II), 'field'

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

- Reading: Šadiya
- Confidence: Probable. Fits the word’s contexts and has a close external comparison, without an independent control.
- Root: [\*ŝady-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/1804/index.md>) 'a (measured) plot of open country, cultivated land'
- Kind: Personal name
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: SI (si) · DI (di) · JA (ja)

## Compared forms

- Ugaritic: šdy (II) PN, syllabic ši-DI-ia, PRU 6 78 (RS 19.41):4, 16, and ša-TI-ya, PRU 3 40 (RS 15.173) rev. 2 (DULAT 799)
- Akkadian: Šadīya, a personal name at Kiš (de Boer 2014, 401)

## Attestations

- [HT 126a](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT126a/index.md>): SI-DI-JA 1\[

## Commentary

A personal name in the damaged HT 126a list, immediately followed by 1. Ugaritic alphabetic śdy is attested as a PN in šmbʿl bn śdy (BAH 214, 7, o 14), and syllabic {m}ša-di-ia occurs at Ugarit in RS 15.0173, r. 2′. Ugarit also writes it ši-DI-ia (PRU 6 78:4, 16), SI-DI-JA sign for sign, and DULAT files both spellings under šdy (II) (DULAT 799). Kiš has ša-di-ia as a name too (de Boer 2014, 401). Sanmartín files the Ugarit names ša-du-ya, ša-dì-ia under Sadaw/y 'open field, field, steppe' (GlOS 2, 272–273). Rivals: 2514 'mountain', on the same lemma; a Hurrian element šad- (Kinlaw 1967, 201–202).

## Same root

- [SA-DI](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/SA-DI/index.md>) (šadī)

## In the onomasticon

- [SI-DI-JA](<https://linear-a.ai/names/SI-DI-JA/index.md>): Personal name, Semitic

## References

- Reading: GORILA I 217; ORACC aemw/ugarit P521356.17.3 (BAH 214, 7, o 14); P503354.14.2 (RS 15.0173, r. 2′); de Boer 2014; GlOS 2; Kinlaw 1967
- ORACC: Oracc Steering Committee, Oracc: The Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus. University of Pennsylvania Museum; CC BY-SA 3.0 unless otherwise stated
- 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
- Kinlaw, Dennis F. (1967), A Study of the Personal Names in the Akkadian Texts from Ugarit. Brandeis University, Department of Mediterranean Studies (Ph.D. dissertation)
- 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
- de Boer, Rients (2014), Amorites in the Early Old Babylonian Period. 
- GlOS 2: Sanmartín, Joaquín (2024), A Glossary of Old Syrian, Volume 2: l – z. Languages of the Ancient Near East 8/2,Eisenbrauns (Pennsylvania State University Press), University Park

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