# SI-KI-NE (Sikinet)

> stewardess or female administrator; compare masculine prefect/commissioner

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

- Reading: Sikinet
- Confidence: Candidate. A comparison worth testing; the evidence is thin or the word is rare.
- Root: [\*sākin-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/3842/index.md>) 'administrator, prefect, governor'
- Kind: Personnel
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: SI (si) · KI (ki) · NE (ne)

## Compared forms

- Amarna: sōkinu / sū-ki-ni / sū-ki-na 'commissioner, one who provides (glossing Akk. rābišu)' (EA 256:9; EA 362:69)
- Hebrew: sōkenet (סֹכֶנֶת), Qal participle fs, of Abishag (1 Kgs 1:2, 4)

## Attestations

- [HT 116a](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT116a/index.md>): SI-KI-NE GRA 12

## Commentary

HT 116a: SI-KI-NE GRA 12, then *304 12, in a list of grain and oil issues, after *OLIV+TU 2 and before QA-NU-MA GRA 20. Sikinet /šikinēt/ follows SI-KI-NE syllable for syllable, with the feminine final /t/ unwritten. Ugaritic šknt /sākinat-/ 'female administrator, stewardess' (Tropper 2000, 180, KTU 4.135:2; škn 4.36:3), and Hebrew has the same feminine participle, sōkenet, of Abishag (1 Kgs 1:2, 4); Akk. šakintu, oblique šakinte, 'woman manager' (CAD Š/1 165). The masculine is Ugaritic skn /sākinu/ 'prefect', syllabic sā-ki-ni (Huehnergard 2012, 156), and Amarna Canaanite sū-ki-ni /sōkini/, a prefect or commissioner. Rival: the masculine title 'prefect, commissioner'. Weak point: one attestation. See *47-KU-NA.

## Same root

- [\*47-KU-NA](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/*47-KU-NA/index.md>) (sōkina)

## In the onomasticon

- [SI-KI-NE](<https://linear-a.ai/names/SI-KI-NE/index.md>): Title, Semitic

## References

- Reading: di Mino; Tropper 2000; Huehnergard 2012; Lipiński 1997; CAD Š/1
- KTU: Dietrich, Manfried; Loretz, Oswald; Sanmartín, Joaquín (2013), Die keilalphabetischen Texte aus Ugarit, Ras Ibn Hani und anderen Orten / The Cuneiform Alphabetic Texts from Ugarit, Ras Ibn Hani and Other Places (KTU³). Ugarit-Verlag, Münster (Alter Orient und Altes Testament 360/1); ISBN 978-3-86835-014-2
- Huehnergard, John (2012), An Introduction to Ugaritic. Hendrickson
- EA: Moran, William L. (1992), The Amarna Letters. Johns Hopkins University Press
- Lipiński, Edward (1997), Semitic Languages: Outline of a Comparative Grammar. Peeters (Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta 80)
- Tropper, Josef (2000), Ugaritische Grammatik. Alter Orient und Altes Testament 273,Ugarit-Verlag
- 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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