Personal name · Semitic
A-SA-DA-KA
Most Righteous (PN)
- Reading
- ʾaṣdaqa
- Type
- Personal name Candidate
- Language
- Semitic Candidate
- Sites
- Malia
- Attestations
- 1
- Lexicon
- A-SA-DA-KA
Commentary
√ṣ-d-q "to be just, righteous". SA=ṣ and KA=q via emphatic neutralization in Linear A syllabary. Direct Amorite PN parallel: şadaqa (the same consonants). Cf. Hebrew Zadok (צָדוֹק), Zedekiah, Melchizedek. Attested on the Malia roundel MAWc<5> with the grain logogram GRA+E—administrative PN context. Rival: Hurrian aštaga ‘woman’, diminutive of ašte (Wilhelm, "Hurrian," 103; Laroche 1980, 61–62), which accounts for the initial A-.
Compared forms
From the lexicon entry A-SA-DA-KA.
- Sabaicʾṣdq, PN (Harding 1971, 51)
- AmoriteṢDQ ‘be just’: ṣadaqa, jaṣduq (Gelb AS 21, 34); PN ṢADAQ-AH, written ZA-DA-GA (Gelb AS 21 no. 6350)
- Ugaritic𐎕𐎄𐎖ṣdqṣdq (I) ‘justice, legitimacy, lawful’ (DULAT 768)
- Hebrewṣaddîqṣaddîq ‘just, righteous’ (HALOT 1001); ṣedeq ‘rightness, justice’ (HALOT 1004)
- Phoenician𐤑𐤃𐤒ṣdqṣdq ‘good, righteous, legitimate’ (Krahmalkov 414)