# SI-TE (Ṣīt)

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

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

- Reading: Ṣīt
- Confidence: Candidate. A comparison worth testing; the evidence is thin or the word is rare.
- Root: [\*wVṣ̂Vʾ-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/K0448/index.md>) 'leave' 1, 'exit, issue' 2
- Kind: Toponym
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: SI (si) · TE (te)

## Compared forms

- Akkadian: *ṣītum* — ṣītum '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.)
- Hebrew: מוֹצָא *môṣāʾ* — môṣāʾ (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)

## Attestations

- [ZA 26a](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/ZA26a/index.md>): SI-TE DI-DI-\[ — the East, eastern Crete (place name)
- [MIL Zb 3](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/MILZb3/index.md>): SI-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).

## Same root

- [SE-TO-I-JA](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/SE-TO-I-JA/index.md>) (Ṣētiya)
- [SI-JA-SE](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/SI-JA-SE/index.md>) (šī-yāṣē)
- [A-MA-WA-SI](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/A-MA-WA-SI/index.md>) (ʿAmma-wāṣiʾ)
- [JA-PA-RA-JA-SE](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/JA-PA-RA-JA-SE/index.md>) (yapʾara yāṣē)
- [JA-SE](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/JA-SE/index.md>) (yāṣē)

## In the onomasticon

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

## References

- Reading: di Mino; DULAT
- DMic II: Aura Jorro, Francisco, Diccionario Micénico, vol. II (CSIC 1993). 
- Huehnergard, John (1997), A Grammar of Akkadian. Scholars Press (Harvard Semitic Studies 45)
- ORACC CAMS/GKAB: ORACC Project (2024), ORACC CAMS/GKAB Glossary (Akkadian Literary Lexicon). oracc.museum.upenn.edu
- 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
- Cline, Eric H.; Stannish, Steven M. (2011), Sailing the Great Green Sea? Amenhotep III's "Aegean List" from Kom el-Hetan, Once More. Journal of Ancient Egyptian Interconnections,3:2,6–16
- 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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