# SI+SE (ṣiṣe)

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

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

- Reading: ṣiṣe
- Confidence: Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once.
- Root: [\*ṣVṣ-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/3987/index.md>) 'salt-field, salt-works' 1, 'salt' 2
- Kind: Administrative
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: SI (si) · SE (se)

## Compared forms

- Ugaritic: 𐎕𐎕 *ṣṣ* — ṣṣ 'salt-works', ṣṣ PN 'salt-works of PN' (KTU 4.340; 4.344; DULAT 781)
- Akkadian: *ṣēṣūma* — ṣēṣūma 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)
- Hebrew: *II ṣîṣ* — II ṣîṣ 'salt (uncertain)' (Jer 48:9; HALOT 1023)

## Attestations

- [HT 116a](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT116a/index.md>): SI+SE GRA 16
- [HT 42+59](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT42~2B59/index.md>): \]-TA SI+SE TE OLE+KI 8 — the salt-works (recipient of oil); rival Šipšu, the Sun-deity
- [HT 99b](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT99b/index.md>): SI+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.

## References

- Reading: di Mino; CAD Ṣ; DULAT; HALOT; Lipiński 1997
- KTU: Dietrich, Manfried; Loretz, Oswald; Sanmartín, Joaquín (2013), Die keilalphabetischen Texte aus Ugarit, Ras Ibn Hani und anderen Orten / The Cuneiform Alphabetic Texts from Ugarit, Ras Ibn Hani and Other Places (KTU³). Ugarit-Verlag, Münster (Alter Orient und Altes Testament 360/1); ISBN 978-3-86835-014-2
- Lipiński, Edward (1997), Semitic Languages: Outline of a Comparative Grammar. Peeters (Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta 80)
- HALOT: Koehler, Ludwig; Baumgartner, Walter; Stamm, Johann Jakob; Richardson, M. E. J. (trans. and ed.) (1994), The Hebrew and Aramaic Lexicon of the Old Testament, vols. I–IV. E. J. Brill, Leiden · New York · Köln
- 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 Ṣ: Oriental Institute (A. Leo Oppenheim, ed.) (1962), The Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, vol. 16, Ṣ. The Oriental Institute, Chicago; J. J. Augustin, Glückstadt

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