# SI-MA (Šima)

> šima 'name of' (common noun in construct); also the personal name Šima, Shem, 'Name, Renown'

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

- Reading: Šima
- Type: Personal name; confidence Candidate. A comparison worth testing; the evidence is thin or the word is rare.
- Language: Semitic; confidence Candidate. A comparison worth testing; the evidence is thin or the word is rare.
- Sites: Phaistos
- Lexicon: [SI-MA](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/SI-MA/index.md>)

## Commentary

PH Zb 4 SI-MA 𐄁 I-JA-TE, on a clay vessel: šima ʾiyyate 'name of the island', the common noun in construct. Or the name Šima, Shem, a person named on a commodity vessel as DI-NA-U on KN Zb 27; Amorite ŠU-MU-UM Šumum (Gelb 1980, no. 5941). See the lexicon entry.

## Attestations

- [PH Zb 4](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/PHZb4/index.md>)

## References

- AS 21: Gelb, Ignace J. (1980), Computer-aided Analysis of Amorite. Assyriological Studies 21,The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago

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