# SI-PI-KI (šipkī)

> pourings, libation portions (wine administration term)

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

- Reading: šipkī
- Confidence: Candidate. A comparison worth testing; the evidence is thin or the word is rare.
- Root: [\*šapāk-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/K0529/index.md>) 'pour'
- Kind: Commodity
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: SI (si) · PI (pi) · KI (ki)

## Compared forms

- : *Akkadian šapāku* — Akkadian šapāku 'to pour, heap up'; Hebrew šāpak (שָׁפַךְ) 'to pour out, shed'; Ugaritic špk 'to spill, shed' (DULAT 823)

## Attestations

- [ZA 4a](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/ZA4a/index.md>): SI-PI-KI 5 — pourings (libation portions), 5 units
- [ZA 5b](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/ZA5b/index.md>): SI-PI-KI 1 ¹⁄₂ — pourings, libation portions
- [ZA 15a](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/ZA15a/index.md>): SI-PI-KI 2 ¹⁄₂

## Commentary

ZA 4a *28B-NU-MA-RE 13, SI-PI-KI 5; ZA 5b *28B-NU-MA-RE 20, SI-PI-KI 1½, then MA-KA-I-TA 3 (Makīt, a recipient); ZA 15a *28B-NU-MA-RE 6, SI-PI-KI 2½: beside JI-NU-MA-RE 'wine-stewards' on all three Zakros wine tablets, with commodity quantities. šipkī 'pourings, libation portions', √š-p-k 'pour out': Heb. šāpak 'pour out', Ug. špk 'spill', Akk. šapāku 'heap up; pour, serve lavishly' (HALOT 1629). Rival: the attested noun šipku, Mari SÍG ši-ip-ku 'in bulk, loose' and šipku 'cereal(s)' (GlOS 2, 257–258; CAD Š/3 71). Three attestations. See JI-NU-MA-RE.

## References

- Reading: di Mino; GlOS 2
- 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 Š/3: Oriental Institute (Erica Reiner, ed.) (1992), The Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, vol. 17, Š, part 3. The Oriental Institute, Chicago; J. J. Augustin, Glückstadt
- 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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