SI+SE-RA+KA

levy, gift—fiscal category on a commodity nodule

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Reading: šeraka
Confidence: Speculative
Root: *šrk ‘to give as a votive offering, to give a…’
Kind: Administrative
Language: Semitic
Rank: —

Compared forms

Akkadianširkuširku B ‘gift; (a tax)’, at Ugarit with the tithe and toll of a town (RS 16.276:10; CAD Š/3 111); širiktu, also šeriktu, ‘grant, gift’ (CAD Š/3 103); šarāku A ‘to dedicate, to give’ (CAD Š/2 40)

Attestations1 cited

HT Wa 1021SI+SE-RA+KA

Commentary

HT Wa 1021, a nodule: *188-DU · ¾ · SI+SE-RA+KA, a commodity, a fraction and a word. With SI+SE as še, SI+SE-RA+KA writes šeraka: Akk. širku ‘gift; a tax’, levied at Ugarit with a town’s tithe and toll (CAD Š/3 111), and širiktu, also šeriktu, ‘grant, gift’ (CAD Š/3 103), of šarāku ‘to dedicate, to give’. RA+KA read in sign order, as MI+*301 minā. Weak point: SI+SE for še. Rival: a personal name, the official of the sealing. One attestation.

On the 3D inscriptions

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