# MA-ZA (mazza)

> corvée workers, labour gang (personnel term)

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

- Reading: mazza
- 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: Zakros
- Lexicon: [MA-ZA](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/MA-ZA/index.md>)

## Commentary

ZA 10b .2–3 MA-ZA 5 (GORILA III 171). Alalakh issues wages to the ma-zi (CAD M/1 327). See the lexicon entry.

## Attestations

- [ZA 10b](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/ZA10b/index.md>)

## References

- 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
- GORILA III: Godart, Louis; Olivier, Jean-Pierre (1976), Recueil des inscriptions en linéaire A, volume 3: Tablettes, nodules et rondelles édités en 1975 et 1976 (GORILA III). École française d'Athènes (Études crétoises XXI, 3); Librairie orientaliste Paul Geuthner, Paris

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