Title · Semitic

PI-TA-RA

trade agents, deputies, a personnel group drawing grain; rivals bitāri 'portions' and the names Paṭir, Batūl

Reading
bidāla
Type
Title Speculative
Language
Semitic Speculative
Sites
Haghia Triada
Attestations
1
Lexicon
PI-TA-RA

Commentary

HT 96a .4 PI-TA-RA 1, whole, in a grain list (GORILA I 157): bidāla ‘trade agents’, the sign sequence of Ugarit bi-da-lu-ma, glossing LÚ.MEŠ DAM.GÀR ‘merchants’ (GlOS 1, 110). Rivals: bitāri ‘portions’ (GlOS 1, 130); the names Paṭir and Batūl (Gelb 1980, nos. 1151, 1153). See the lexicon entry. One witness.

Compared forms

From the lexicon entry PI-TA-RA.

  • Ugaritic𐎁𐎄𐎍bdlbdl(m) ‘substitute, lieutenant, a kind of (sales) representative’; syllabic LÚ.MEŠ DAM.GÀR : bi-da-lu-ma ‘merchants’ (GlOS 1, 110)
  • Eblaiteba-da-lum baddālba-da-lum baddāl ‘merchant’ (GlOS 1, 110)
  • Emarrival bi-it-rurival bi-it-ru ‘portion’, pl. bi-ta-ri (GlOS 1, 130)
  • Amoriterival PAṬIR-UM Paṭirum ‘released’ (Gelb 1980, no. 1151); BATUL-UM Batūlum ‘bachelor’ (no. 1153)
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