# RA-O-DI-KI (rāʿû diqqi)

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

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

- Reading: rāʿû diqqi
- 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: Phaistos
- Lexicon: [RA-O-DI-KI](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/RA-O-DI-KI/index.md>)

## 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.

## Attestations

- [PH 2](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/PH2/index.md>)

## References

- DULAT: del Olmo Lete, Gregorio; Sanmartín, Joaquín (2015), A Dictionary of the Ugaritic Language in the Alphabetic Tradition. Brill, Leiden/Boston (Handbook of Oriental Studies 1/112); Third Revised Edition, tr. and ed. Wilfred G.E. Watson; 2 parts
- Lane: Lane, Edward William (1863), An Arabic-English Lexicon. Williams and Norgate, London
- CAD R: Oriental Institute (Erica Reiner and Martha T. Roth, eds.) (1999), The Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, vol. 14, R. The Oriental Institute, 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

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