# SI-RU-MA-RI-TA₂ (Ṣill-marʾita)

> Shade of the Lady

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

- Reading: Ṣill-marʾita
- 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: Haghia Triada
- Lexicon: [SI-RU](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/SI-RU/index.md>)

## 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.

## Attestations

- [HT 90](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT90/index.md>)

## References

- Biella: Biella, Joan Copeland (1982), Dictionary of Old South Arabic: Sabaean Dialect. Scholars Press (Harvard Semitic Studies 25)
- 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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