# SI-MI-TA (Śīmat)

> personal name (f.), on √ś-y-m 'to place, fix'; rival Šimʿat

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

- Reading: Śīmat
- 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: Haghia Triada
- Lexicon: [SI-MI-TA](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/SI-MI-TA/index.md>)

## Commentary

HT 96a .2 SI-MI-TA GRA 5, the first recipient (GORILA I 156). Śīmat, the women's name of Amorite ŚIJM-AT-UM, ŠI-MA-TUM (Gelb no. 5893). Rival: Hebrew Šimʿat (2 Kgs 12:22). One witness.

## Attestations

- [HT 96a](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT96a/index.md>)

## References

- 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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