# A-SI-KI-RA (ha-Śikira)

> personal name, 'the Hired' (article ha- + SI-KI-RA); rival haśkira 'he rewarded'

A name in the Linear A onomasticon. The reading is a proposal and carries its tier.

- Reading: ha-Śikira
- Type: Personal name; confidence Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once.
- Language: Semitic; confidence Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once.
- Sites: Khania
- Lexicon: [A-SI-KI-RA](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/A-SI-KI-RA/index.md>)

## Commentary

KH 20 .1 A-SI-KI-RA · CYP+E ⅓, parallel to ]DU-RE-ZA (GORILA III 51). ha-Śikira 'the Hired': the article ha- + SI-KI-RA (HT 8a), √ś-k-r 'to hire'. Rival: haśkira 'he rewarded', and the Amorite DN ʾAškur (Gelb nos. 947, 950). One witness.

## Attestations

- [KH 20](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/KH20/index.md>)

## References

- GORILA III: Godart, Louis; Olivier, Jean-Pierre (1976), Recueil des inscriptions en linéaire A, volume 3: Tablettes, nodules et rondelles édités en 1975 et 1976 (GORILA III). École française d'Athènes (Études crétoises XXI, 3); Librairie orientaliste Paul Geuthner, Paris

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