# QA-\*310-I (qaynī)

> smith or cultic administrator; occupational title

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

- Reading: qaynī
- Type: Title; confidence Probable. Fits the word’s contexts and has a close external comparison, without an independent control.
- Language: Semitic; confidence Probable. Fits the word’s contexts and has a close external comparison, without an independent control.
- Sites: Haghia Triada
- Lexicon: [QA-\*310-I](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/QA-*310-I/index.md>)

## Commentary

Recurring Haghia Triada personnel or recipient label. Arabic qayn 'smith, artisan' and Sabaic qyn 'administrator, governor' support a title; the connection with Hebrew qēnî 'Kenite' is uncertain (Biella 1982, 454).

## Attestations

- [HT 122a](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT122a/index.md>)
- [HT 85b](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT85b/index.md>)
- [HT 8a](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT8a/index.md>)
- [HT 8b](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT8b/index.md>)

## References

- Biella: Biella, Joan Copeland (1982), Dictionary of Old South Arabic: Sabaean Dialect. Scholars Press (Harvard Semitic Studies 25)

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