# MA-KA-RI-TE (makkārītu)

> merchants (heading of a roster of men); rival 'red (wool)'

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

- Reading: makkārītu
- Type: Title; 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: [MA-KA-RI-TE](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/MA-KA-RI-TE/index.md>)

## Commentary

MA-KA-RI-TE heads the HT117a personnel list and follows the *21F-TU-NE heading on HT87. One sign-group in both. 'Merchants', √m-k-r: Ugaritic mkrm, counted in rosters with a total (DULAT 537). Rival: makritu 'red' (CAD M/1 138). A non-onomastic heading. Akk. mākiru, makkāru 'trader'.

## Attestations

- [HT 87](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT87/index.md>)
- [HT 117a](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT117a/index.md>)

## References

- DULAT: del Olmo Lete, Gregorio; Sanmartín, Joaquín (2015), A Dictionary of the Ugaritic Language in the Alphabetic Tradition. Brill, Leiden/Boston (Handbook of Oriental Studies 1/112); Third Revised Edition, tr. and ed. Wilfred G.E. Watson; 2 parts
- CAD M/1: Oriental Institute (A. Leo Oppenheim and Erica Reiner, eds.) (1977), The Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, vol. 10, M, part 1. The Oriental Institute, Chicago

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