# I-KA (ʾikkār)

> farmer, plowman (recipient)

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

- Reading: ʾikkār
- Type: Title; 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: Haghia Triada
- Lexicon: [I-KA](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/I-KA/index.md>)

## Commentary

HT 91, heading grain and small rations of oil, olives, figs and wine, and HT 102 I-KA 5 in a grain ledger: ʾikkār 'farmer', Akkadian ikkaru 'plowman, farmer' (CAD I/J 49), Hebrew ʾikkār. Rival: the personal name Ikkaru (ORACC QPN). See the lexicon entry.

## Attestations

- [HT 91](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT91/index.md>)
- [HT 102](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT102/index.md>)

## References

- ORACC: Oracc Steering Committee, Oracc: The Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus. University of Pennsylvania Museum; CC BY-SA 3.0 unless otherwise stated
- CAD I/J: Oriental Institute (A. Leo Oppenheim, ed.) (1960), The Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, vol. 7, I and J. The Oriental Institute, Chicago

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