# DA-QE-RA (ḏā-Qīra)

> the (district) of Qīr, the walled town; heading opposite KA-PA 'village'; rival diḳaru 'pot'

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

- Reading: ḏā-Qīra
- Type: Place; confidence Candidate. A comparison worth testing; the evidence is thin or the word is rare.
- Language: Semitic; confidence Candidate. A comparison worth testing; the evidence is thin or the word is rare.
- Sites: Haghia Triada
- Lexicon: [DA-QE-RA](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/DA-QE-RA/index.md>)

## Commentary

KA-PA and DA-QE-RA head the two sections of HT 6a; DA-QE-RA heads HT 120, grain to DA-ME, KI-RE-TA-NA and PA-I-TO, and HT 57a. ḏā 'the one of' + Qīr, a town name, Moabite qr 'city', Hebrew Qîr Môʾāb (HALOT 1099–1100). Rival: diqāru 'bowl' (CAD D 157). See the lexicon entry.

## Attestations

- [HT 6a](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT6a/index.md>)
- [HT 57a](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT57a/index.md>)
- [HT 120](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT120/index.md>)

## References

- CAD D: Oriental Institute (A. Leo Oppenheim, ed.) (1959), The Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, vol. D. 
- 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

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