# PI-TA-RA (bidāla)

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

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

- Reading: bidāla
- 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: Haghia Triada
- Lexicon: [PI-TA-RA](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/PI-TA-RA/index.md>)

## 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.

## Attestations

- [HT 96a](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT96a/index.md>)

## References

- AS 21: Gelb, Ignace J. (1980), Computer-aided Analysis of Amorite. Assyriological Studies 21,The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago
- 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
- GlOS 1: Sanmartín, Joaquín (2019), A Glossary of Old Syrian, Volume 1: ʔ – ḳ. Languages of the Ancient Near East 8/1,Eisenbrauns (Pennsylvania State University Press), University Park

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