SU-KI-RI-TE-I-JA

of Sukrita (Sybrita): origin label on a jar

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Reading
Sukritēya
Confidence
Speculative
Root
*sagar- ‘close’ 1, ‘to hand over’ 2
Kind
Toponym
Language
Semitic
Rank
—

Compared forms

  • UgariticsuGirsuGir ‘bolt’, the base of the town name (GlOS 2, 190)
  • Linear Bsu-ki-ri-ta-jo, the ethnic of the town, KN C(2) 911

Attestations1 cited

  1. HT Zb 158bSU-KI-RI-TE-I-JAof Sukrita (Sybrita) — origin adjective from the toponym SU-KI-RI-TA (LB su-ki-ri-ta, Greek Σύβριτα)

Commentary

HT Zb 158b, a jar: the only word on side b (GORILA IV 65); side a reads [·]-TU-SE-SU-KI. Gentilic on SU-KI-RI-TA (PH Wa 32), the vowel of KI dead before RI; Linear B has the ethnic su-ki-ri-ta-jo (KN C 911). Davis (Aura Suppl. 13, 46) pairs the two forms as alternating endings. -I-JA is the Semitic nisba *-iy- (fem. *-iyya), the gentilic suffix of Ugaritic ugrty /ʾugaritiyyu/ ‘man of Ugarit’ (Fischer 2002, §116). Rival: Anatolian -iya-. -TE-I-JA has no other Linear A witness; SE-TO-I-JA (PR Za 1) shares -I-JA. One document.

On the 3D inscriptions

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

Linear A Lexicon