# SI-MI-TA (Śīmat)

> personal name (f.), on √ś-y-m 'to place, fix'; rival Šimʿat

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

- Reading: Śīmat
- Confidence: Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once.
- Root: [\*śVyVm-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/K0500/index.md>) 'place'
- Kind: Personal name
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: SI (si) · MI (mi) · TA (ta)

## Compared forms

- Amorite: ŚIJM-AT-UM, ŠI-MA-TUM, fem.; ŚIJM-AT+DAGAN, ŠI-MA-AT-D-DA-GAN, fem. (Gelb 1980 nos. 5893, 5888)
- Eblaite: si-mi-dum, śīm(a)t 'destiny' (GlOS 2, 282)
- Mari: Šīmatum, ši-ma-tim, daughter of Zimri-Lim (FM IV, 283; FM V, 285)
- Hebrew: Šimʿat, PN (2 Kgs 12:22), rival

## Attestations

- [HT 96a](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT96a/index.md>): SI-MI-TA GRA 5 — recipient of grain 5; personal name (f.), on √ś-y-m 'to place, fix' (Amorite ŚIJM-AT-UM, Gelb no. 5893); rival Šimʿat

## Commentary

HT 96a .2 SI-MI-TA GRA 5, the first recipient under I-TI-TI-KU-NI · A-PA-RA-NE · A-*123-TE (GORILA I 156). śīmat, the women's name of Amorite ŚIJM-AT-UM, ŠI-MA-TUM (Gelb no. 5893): SI writes ś, which merges into the S series, and MI for ma is a vowel mismatch only. Rival: Hebrew Šimʿat (2 Kgs 12:22), with the ʿ unwritten. One witness. See SA-JA-MA.

## Same root

- [SA-JA-MA](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/SA-JA-MA/index.md>) (śaymā)

## In the onomasticon

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

## References

- Reading: di Mino; Gelb 1980; GlOS 2; FM IV; FM V
- AS 21: Gelb, Ignace J. (1980), Computer-aided Analysis of Amorite. Assyriological Studies 21,The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago
- 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
- 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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