# SI-TE-TU (šetātu)

> woven (cloth), a textile entry; rival šittātu 'remainder'

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

- Reading: šetātu
- Confidence: Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once.
- Root: [\*šVtVy-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/1408/index.md>) 'tie, weave'
- Kind: Textile
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: SI (si) · TE (te) · TU (tu)

## Compared forms

- Ugaritic: 𐎌𐎚𐎚 *štt* — štt adj. f. 'spun, woven'; RS Akk. TÚG še-ta-ti (DULAT 839)
- Akkadian: *šatû* — šatû adj. 'woven (cloth)' (CAD Š/2 207); šittātu 'remainder', pl. of šittu A (CAD Š/3 136), rival

## Attestations

- [ZA 20](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/ZA20/index.md>): SI-TE-TU 1 — woven (cloth), 1; rival šittātu 'remainder'

## Commentary

ZA 20 .2 SI-TE-TU 1, after DU-RE-ZA-SE MI · 4 and before SI-TU 6, in a list ending KU-RA 130 (GORILA III 193). šetātu, the feminine of Ugaritic štt 'spun, woven', written TÚG še-ta-ti at Ras Shamra (DULAT 839), beside SI-TU sūt 'garment' on the next line. Rival: šittātu 'remainder' (CAD Š/3 136). One witness.

## References

- Reading: di Mino; DULAT; CAD Š
- 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/2: Oriental Institute (Erica Reiner, ed.) (1992), The Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, vol. 17, Š, part 2. The Oriental Institute, Chicago; J. J. Augustin, Glückstadt
- 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
- GORILA III: Godart, Louis; Olivier, Jean-Pierre (1976), Recueil des inscriptions en linéaire A, volume 3: Tablettes, nodules et rondelles édités en 1975 et 1976 (GORILA III). École française d'Athènes (Études crétoises XXI, 3); Librairie orientaliste Paul Geuthner, Paris

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