# O-RA₂-DI-NE (ʾŌl-dīn)

> personal name, 'the Foremost is judge' (Ugaritic PN ảwldn); rival ʾIl-dīn 'El is judge'

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

- Reading: ʾŌl-dīn
- Type: Personal name; 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: [O-RA₂-DI-NE](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/O-RA~E2~82~82-DI-NE/index.md>)

## Commentary

HT 6a .4 O-RA₂-DI-NE 2, in a list of NI (GORILA I 13). ʾŌl-dīn, sign for sign the Ugaritic PN ảwldn (DULAT 128): ʾŌl 'the Foremost', Ugaritic ảwl 'priority, supremacy' (DULAT 128), Arabic ʾāla, ʾawila 'to precede, to be first' (Lane 126); dīn 'judgment', as in bʕldn (DULAT 207). Rival: ỉldn ʾIl-dīn 'El is judge' (DULAT 52). See the lexicon entries O-RA₂-DI-NE, O-RA₂ and DI-NE.

## Attestations

- [HT 6a](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT6a/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
- Lane: Lane, Edward William (1863), An Arabic-English Lexicon. Williams and Norgate, London
- 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

---

Page: https://linear-a.ai/names/O-RA~E2~82~82-DI-NE/
Licence: CC BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Cite as: di Mino, Tom. 2026. Linear A Lexicon. Plasma AI. https://linear-a.ai/. Data: kaphtor, commit add28e94.