SI-TE

the East, lit. 'the going-out (of the sun)', a name for eastern Crete; rival ṣīt 'issue, outlay'

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Reading
Ṣīt
Confidence
Candidate
Root
*wVṣ̂Vʾ- ‘leave’ 1, ‘exit, issue’ 2
Kind
Toponym
Language
Semitic
Rank
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Compared forms

  • Akkadianṣītumṣītum 'rise, rising (of sun), east; emergence, birth, origin; produce, product; lease; expenditure, loss‘ (Huehnergard 1997, glossary); NIM read ṣīti ’east‘ (ORACC CAMS/GKAB, P348764); Tâmtu ša ṣīt Šamši ’the Sea of the Rising Sun' (RGTC 7/3, s.v.)
  • Hebrewמוֹצָאmôṣāʾmôṣāʾ (מוֹצָא) ‘going out; east’, against maʿărāb ‘west’ (Ps 75:7); ṣēʾt (צֵאת) ‘going out’, kə-ṣēʾt ha-šemeš ‘as the going-out of the sun’ (Judg 5:31)

Attestations2 cited

  1. ZA 26aSI-TE DI-DI-[the East, eastern Crete (place name)
  2. MIL Zb 3SI-TE

Commentary

ZA 26a .1 SI-TE · DI-DI-[, heading the tablet before *21F 13, intact and undotted (GORILA III 202–203); MIL Zb 3, a vessel, breaks through SI. √y-ṣ-ʾ: ṣīt, the sun’s going-out, the East, as Akkadian ṣītum and Hebrew môṣāʾ (Ps 75:7). SI writes ṣ as in SI-JA-SE, and SI-TU sūt spells the closed syllable alike. The Kom el-Hetan list’s damaged [sȝ]-i-tȝ-[y], tentatively Siteia (Cline & Stannish 2011, 10), compares; cf. Σηταία (DMic II 288; MGV I 243 s.u.) and Σήται (Ruijgh, Études 210 n. 559, apud DMic II 289 n. 5). Rival: ṣīt ‘issue, outlay’, Ugaritic ṣảt ‘issue’ (DULAT 764).

On the 3D inscriptions

Not written on any of the 82 inscriptions modelled so far.

Linear A Lexicon