Gentilic · Semitic

PA-SA-RI-JA

the Baṣirean, gentilic of Baṣīru, a town of Ugarit (Ug. bṣry): a wool section heading

Reading: Baṣariya
Type: Gentilic Speculative
Language: Semitic Speculative
Sites: Haghia Triada
Attestations: 1
Lexicon: PA-SA-RI-JA

Commentary

Heading of the second HT 24a wool section, as KU-PA₃-RI-JA Kubariya heads the first. Baṣīru, a town of Ugarit: alphabetic bṣr, gentilic bṣry, syllabic URU ba-ṣi-ri (DULAT 240; RGTC 12/2, 53), listed with Kubariya. See the lexicon entry.

Compared forms

From the lexicon entry PA-SA-RI-JA.

Ugariticbṣr, a town of Ugarit, syllabic URU ba-ṣi-ri, RS 25.455 A+B I 10, ‘inaccessible place’ (Watson, apud DULAT 240); gentilic bṣry (DULAT 240)
Akkadian*Baṣīru (RGTC 12/2, 53)