# KI-DA-RO (Qidaru)

> personal name, 'Dark' (√ḳ-d-r 'be dark'; cf. Hebrew Qēdār)

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

- Reading: Qidaru
- Type: Personal name; confidence Probable. Fits the word’s contexts and has a close external comparison, without an independent control.
- Language: Semitic; confidence Probable. Fits the word’s contexts and has a close external comparison, without an independent control.
- Sites: Haghia Triada
- Lexicon: [KI-DA-RO](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/KI-DA-RO/index.md>)

## Commentary

HT 117a, counted once in a roster of people. √ḳ-d-r 'be dark'; cf. Hebrew Qēdār (Gen 25:13). HT 47a KI-DA-RO[ is broken (GORILA I 91).

## Attestations

- [HT 117a](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT117a/index.md>)

## References

- GORILA I: Godart, Louis; Olivier, Jean-Pierre (1976), Recueil des inscriptions en linéaire A, volume 1: Tablettes éditées avant 1970 (GORILA I). École française d'Athènes (Études crétoises XXI, 1); Librairie orientaliste Paul Geuthner, Paris

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