Title · Semitic
SA-RA
queen, princess (feminine of šarru)
- Reading
- šarra
- Type
- Title Candidate
- Language
- Semitic Candidate
- Sites
- Samothrace
- Attestations
- 1
- Lexicon
- SA-RA
Commentary
SAM Wa 1, JA-SA SA-RA TE 10 ¹⁄₁₆, whose edition is untraced; it may be JA-SA-SA-RA across a line break, as IO Za 12 writes JA-SA / SA-RA-ME. HT 62 .1 has [·-·]-SA-RA, broken before (GORILA I 117). Feminine of SA-RU šarru ‘king’, as Hebrew Sarah ‘princess’. SA-RA₂ may write the same title; RA₂ and the missing final -t leave its form open.
Compared forms
From the lexicon entry SA-RA.
- Akkadianšarratušarratu ‘queen’
- Amoritešarra beside šarratum ‘queen’ (Gelb 1980, glossary); ʿAštar-šarra, EŠ₄-DAR-ŠAR-RA (no. 1693); Mari women’s names DN-šarra(t) ‘DN is the queen’ (Nakata 1995, 249); śartu ‘queen’, qallt, beside śarru ‘king’ (Buck 2019, 332)
- Hebrewśārāśārā ‘princess’ (Gen 17:15)