# SI-KA (šikā)

> office of the steward or prefect (√s-k-n); rival sukkā 'booth' (√s-k-k)

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

- Reading: šikā
- Confidence: Candidate. A comparison worth testing; the evidence is thin or the word is rare.
- Root: [\*šakVn-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/2776/index.md>) 'to dwell, settle; to place, set'
- Kind: Personnel
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: SI (si) · KA (ka)
- Rank: #86 of the top 100

## Compared forms

- Ugaritic: 𐎒𐎋𐎐 *skn* — skn "steward, prefect" (DULAT 746)
- Hebrew: *šākan* — šākan "to dwell" (HALOT 1496); šĕkīnā "Shekhinah"; OR sukkā (סֻכָּה) "booth, tabernacle" (√s-k-k "to cover"); Sukkot (סֻכּוֹת) festival of booths
- Akkadian: *šakānu* — šakānu "to place, set, establish" (CAD Š1 115); šaknu "governor"
- Arabic: *sakana* — sakana "to dwell, be tranquil" (BK 1 1112)

## Attestations

- [HT Wa 1014](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HTWa1014/index.md>): SI-KA
- [HT Wa 1015](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HTWa1015/index.md>): SI-KA
- [HT Wa 1016](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HTWa1016/index.md>): SI-KA
- [HT Wa 1017](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HTWa1017/index.md>): SI-KA
- [HT Wa 1018](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HTWa1018/index.md>): SI-KA
- [HT Wa 1028](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HTWa1028/index.md>): SI-KA

## Commentary

Six identical nodules from Portico 11/Room 13 at Haghia Triada (HT Wa 1014–1018, 1028): sealings of an institution, the office of a steward or prefect. √s-k-n (š-k-n), the title family of Ug. skn 'prefect, governor; manager, administrator' (DULAT 746), the Amarna gloss sú-ki-na (DULAT 746) and SI-KI-NE Sikinet. Rival: √s-k-k 'to cover', Heb. sukkā 'booth'. Weak point: SI-KA writes neither the n of the title nor a suffix. IO Za 6 I-NA-TA-I-ZU-DI-SI-KA ends in a homograph, šiqā 'she who gives drink' (√š-q-y).

## References

- Reading: di Mino
- 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
- BK 1: Biberstein Kazimirski, A. de (1860), Dictionnaire arabe-français, tome premier (ا–ص). Maisonneuve et Cie, Paris
- CAD Š/1: Oriental Institute (Erica Reiner, ed.) (1989), The Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, vol. 17, Š, part 1. The Oriental Institute, Chicago

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