Title · Semitic

RA-O-DI-KI

herdsman of the small cattle (title, over a flock of 60); rival a personal name

Reading
rāʿû diqqi
Type
Title Speculative
Language
Semitic Speculative
Sites
Phaistos
Attestations
1
Lexicon
RA-O-DI-KI

Commentary

PH 2 .1–2 RA-O-DI-KI 60, after the heading A-SE-TU-*21F (GORILA I 288–289). rāʿû ‘herdsman’ + diqqi ‘of the small cattle’: Arabic huwa rāʿī ad-daqāʾiq ‘he is the pastor of sheep, or goats’ (Lane 896), Ugaritic dqt ‘sacrificial ewe, sheep’ (DULAT 276), Akkadian rēʾû, rāʾû ‘herdsman’ (CAD R 303). Rival: a personal name. See the lexicon entry.

Compared forms

From the lexicon entry RA-O-DI-KI.

  • Arabichuwa rāʿī ad-daqāʾiq ‘he is the pastor of sheep, or goats’; daqīqa ‘small cattle’, opposed to jalīla ‘camels’ (Lane 896)
  • Ugariticrʕyrʕy ‘shepherd’ (DULAT 716); dqt ‘sacrificial ewe, sheep’ (DULAT 276)
  • Akkadianrēʾû, rāʾû ‘herdsman, shepherd’; reʾû unīqi ‘shepherd of she-kids’ (CAD R 303)
Linear A Lexicon