SI+SE

the salt-works (Ug. ṣṣ, WSem. ṣēṣūma 'salt marsh'), an establishment drawing grain, oil and figs; rival Šipšu, the Sun-deity

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Reading
ṣiṣe
Confidence
Speculative
Root
*ṣVṣ- ‘salt-field, salt-works’ 1, ‘salt’ 2
Kind
Administrative
Language
Semitic
Rank
—

Compared forms

  • Ugaritic𐎕𐎕ṣṣṣṣ ‘salt-works’, ṣṣ PN ‘salt-works of PN’ (KTU 4.340; 4.344; DULAT 781)
  • Akkadianṣēṣūmaṣēṣūma pl. ‘salt marsh’, a WSem. word at Ras Shamra: ṣí-ṣú-ma, ṣi-e-ṣi-ma for A.ŠÀ MUN.MEŠ ‘fields of salt’ (CAD Ṣ 150)
  • HebrewII ṣîṣII ṣîṣ ‘salt (uncertain)’ (Jer 48:9; HALOT 1023)

Attestations3 cited

  1. HT 116aSI+SE GRA 16
  2. HT 42+59]-TA SI+SE TE OLE+KI 8the salt-works (recipient of oil); rival Šipšu, the Sun-deity
  3. HT 99bSI+SE-NI 6

Commentary

HT 116a: SI+SE GRA 16, OLE+KI 1, OLE+MI 6, OLIV 3, a recipient among KU-PA-JA, PU-RA₂, PI-*34-TE, SI-KI-NE and QA-NU-MA. HT 42+59: ]-TA · SI+SE · TE · OLE+KI 8, OLE+U 7, beside SA-RO. HT 99b: SI+SE FIC 6, AB30 read as the fig logogram (SigLA). Read in sign order, ṣi-ṣe: Ug. ṣṣ ‘salt-works’, listed by owner (KTU 4.340; DULAT 781), the WSem. ṣēṣūma ‘salt marsh’ of Ras Shamra, spelled ṣi-e-ṣi-ma (CAD Ṣ 150). SI writes ṣ as in SI-DA-TE ṣēdat. The salt-works draws rations beside QA-NU-MA qanūma ‘reeds’. Rivals: Šipšu, the Sun-deity, Ebla sí-piš (Lipiński 1997, 113, 118; #1407), with the coda p unwritten; a syllabic še, as in SI+SE-RA+KA (HT Wa 1021). Three attestations.

On the 3D inscriptions

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

Linear A Lexicon