# MA-DI (Maʾdi)

> place name: a unit of men and livestock in the HT rosters; rival the Hurrian personal name Madi 'wisdom'

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

- Reading: Maʾdi
- Type: Place; 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, Phaistos
- Lexicon: [MA-DI](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/MA-DI/index.md>)

## Commentary

HT 97a .4 MA-DI 5 in the KA-RU list of men by place, after PA-I-TO 6 (GORILA I 159); HT 118 MA-DI 15 heads the pig list; HT 85b MA-DI 1 beside KI-RE-TA₂ 1. Maʾdi, √m-ʾ-d 'to be plentiful', the Amorite name MAʾD-IJA, MA-DI-IA (Gelb 1980, no. 4453); Linear B ma-di, ma-di-qo, ]ma-di-jo[, ma-di-je. Rival: the Hurrian personal name Madi 'wisdom' (de Martino 2011, 68).

## Attestations

- [HT 118](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT118/index.md>)
- [HT 3](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT3/index.md>)
- [HT 69](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT69/index.md>)
- [HT 85b](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT85b/index.md>)
- [HT 97a](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT97a/index.md>)
- [PH(?) 31a](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/PH(~3F)31a/index.md>)

## References

- AS 21: Gelb, Ignace J. (1980), Computer-aided Analysis of Amorite. Assyriological Studies 21,The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago
- 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
- de Martino, Stefano (2011), Hurrian Personal Names in the Kingdom of Ḫatti. LoGisma, Firenze (Eothen 18)

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