Title · Semitic

SA-RA₂

queen/princess; by metonymy the queen's or royal establishment (recipient/institutional heading)

Reading
šarra
Type
Title Candidate
Language
Semitic Candidate
Sites
Haghia Triada
Attestations
20
Lexicon
SA-RA₂

Commentary

Corpus distribution favors a recipient, title, or institution over a ‘surplus’ gloss. HT105 supplies the strongest control: KA-PA and SA-RA₂ stand in parallel before VIR totals 234 and 235. The royal reading remains CANDIDATE because RA₂ is uncertain and exact Akkadian šarratu would require an unwritten final /t/.

Compared forms

From the lexicon entry SA-RA₂.

  • Akkadianšarratušarratu (construct šarrat-) ‘queen’
  • Amoritešarrašarra ‘queen’ (Gelb 1980, glossary); Nanni-šarra(t), a woman of Zimri-Lim’s palace at Mari, written both ᵈna-an-ni-šar-ra and na-an-ni-šar-ra-at (Ziegler 1999, 278)
  • Hebrewśārâśārâ ‘princess’ (Gen 17:15)
  • Linear AšarruSA-RU /šarru/ ‘king/prince’ and SA-RA /šarra/ ‘queen/princess’, the same title family
Linear A Lexicon