# RI-DA-U (Ridāyu)

> Ridāyu 'Helper, Escort' (personal name, hypocoristic)

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

- Reading: Ridāyu
- Type: Personal name; 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: Lachish
- Lexicon: [RI-DA-U](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/RI-DA-U/index.md>)

## Commentary

LACH Za 1 ]-MI(?) · RI-DA-U · SE ¾, a limestone vessel from Tel Lachish (Finkelberg, Uchitel and Ussishkin 1996, 195–203), in the frame of KN Zb 27 DI-NA-U · VIN 17. Arabic ridʾ 'helper' (Lane 1065); Sabaic, Qatabanic RDʾ (Harding 1971, 275). Rival: a vessel or contents name. See the lexicon entry.

## Attestations

- [LACH Za 1](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/LACHZa1/index.md>)

## References

- Harding, G. Lankester (1971), An Index and Concordance of Pre-Islamic Arabian Names and Inscriptions. Near and Middle East Series 8,University of Toronto Press
- Lane: Lane, Edward William (1863), An Arabic-English Lexicon. Williams and Norgate, London
- Finkelberg, Margalit; Uchitel, Alexander; Ussishkin, David (1996), A Linear A Inscription from Tel Lachish (LACH Za 1). Tel Aviv,23,195–207

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