Personal name · Semitic

SI-RU-MA-RI-TA₂

Shade of the Lady

Reading
Ṣill-marʾita
Type
Personal name Candidate
Language
Semitic Candidate
Sites
Haghia Triada
Attestations
1
Lexicon
SI-RU

Commentary

The second recipient on HT 90, written as one word (GORILA I 143). SI-RU ṣillu ‘shade, protection’ (Amorite Ṣill-Haddu, Ṣillī-Baʿli) + MA-RI-TA₂ marʾ(i)tā ‘the Lady’ (Sabaic mrʾt ‘lady, divine or human’, Biella 283; Akkadian marʾatu, Aramaic mārtā): a ‘Shade of DN’ name with the Goddess’s title.

Compared forms

From the lexicon entry SI-RU.

  • Amoriteṣill-ṣill- ‘shade, protection’ (Huffmon, APNM 257); Ṣillī-Baʿli, Ṣill-Haddu
  • Hebrewצֵלṣēlṣēl (צֵל) ‘shade’ (HALOT 1024); Ṣillāh (HALOT 1025)
  • Ugariticẓilluẓl /ẓillu/ ‘shade’ (Huehnergard 2012)
Linear A Lexicon