# SU-KI-RI-TA (Sukrita)

> Sukrita (place name; Linear B su-ki-ri-ta)

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

- Reading: Sukrita
- Confidence: Candidate. A comparison worth testing; the evidence is thin or the word is rare.
- Root: [\*sagar-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/K0391/index.md>) 'close' 1, 'to hand over' 2
- Kind: Toponym
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: SU (su) · KI (ki) · RI (ri) · TA (ta)

## Compared forms

- Ugaritic: *s-g-r* — /s-g-r/ 'to close, shut' (DULAT 743); syllabic suGir 'bolt' (GlOS 2, 190)
- Hebrew: *sāgar* — sāgar 'shut, close' (HALOT 742)
- Linear B: su-ki-ri-ta, the town, KN Da 1091, Db 1324, Db 1327, Df 1325, Dn 1092, Dv 5232

## Attestations

- [PH Wa 32](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/PHWa32/index.md>): SU-KI-RI-TA

## Commentary

PH Wa 32, a Phaistos nodule: SU-KI-RI-TA alone, four signs, undotted (GORILA II 90). HT Zb 158b, a jar: SU-KI-RI-TE-I-JA, the gentilic in -TE-I-JA. Linear B spells the place su-ki-ri-ta in the Knossos sheep tablets (KN Da 1091, Db 1324, 1327, Df 1325, Dn 1092, Dv 5232), with the ethnic su-ki-ri-ta-jo (KN C 911); DMic II 303 n. 6 records Godart's reading of su-ki-ri-ta on this Phaistos sealing (PP 31, 1976, 42 ff.) and the scribe's change of su-ki-ri-ta to pa-i-to on KN Da 1163. Identified with Σύβριτα in the Amari valley; Chadwick takes the name as not Greek (DMic II 303 n. 5). √s-g-r 'shut, bolt' on Ventris and Chadwick's Sugrita, the vowel of KI dead: Heb. sāgar 'shut' (BDB 688), Akk. šigaru 'bolt' (HALOT 742), Pun. sgr 'lock'; Ugarit syllabic GIŠ sú-qi-ri 'bolt', the same SU-KI-RI frame (GlOS 2, 190). Ugaritic personal name śgryn /Sugriyānu/ (KTU³ 4.825 i 13), s̀ an allograph of {s} (Tropper & Vita 2019, §2). Rival: SU- + KI-RI-TA qrt 'town' (Phoen., Pun. qrt, HALOT 1142; Syr. ḳerīt-, Brock. 695), SU- unexplained; Greek writes Semitic q as κ, and Σύβριτα has β/γ.

## Same root

- [SU-KI-RI-TE-I-JA](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/SU-KI-RI-TE-I-JA/index.md>) (Sukritēya)

## In the onomasticon

- [SU-KI-RI-TA](<https://linear-a.ai/names/SU-KI-RI-TA/index.md>): Place, Semitic

## References

- Reading: di Mino; GlOS 2
- 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
- DMic II: Aura Jorro, Francisco, Diccionario Micénico, vol. II (CSIC 1993). 
- 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
- Tropper, Josef; Vita, Juan-Pablo (2019), Ugaritic. In John Huehnergard and Na'ama Pat-El (eds.), The Semitic Languages, 2nd ed. Routledge, Abingdon/New York: 482–508 (ch. 19)
- 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
- BDB: Brown, Francis; Driver, S. R.; Briggs, Charles A. (1907), A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament, with an Appendix Containing the Biblical Aramaic. Houghton Mifflin Company
- GORILA II: Godart, Louis; Olivier, Jean-Pierre (1979), Recueil des inscriptions en linéaire A, volume 2: Nodules, scellés et rondelles édités avant 1970 (GORILA II). École française d'Athènes (Études crétoises XXI, 2); Librairie orientaliste Paul Geuthner, Paris
- GlOS 2: Sanmartín, Joaquín (2024), A Glossary of Old Syrian, Volume 2: l – z. Languages of the Ancient Near East 8/2,Eisenbrauns (Pennsylvania State University Press), University Park

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