# SI-RU (ṣillu)

> shade, protection (personal-name element)

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

- Reading: ṣillu
- 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

Name on the HT 55a list after ]KỊ-RỌ ·, each entry with 1 (GORILA I 107). Cf. Amorite ṣill- 'shade, protection' (Huffmon, APNM 257): Ṣillī-Baʿli (APNM 58), Ṣill-Haddu, Ṣillān (Gelb, AS 21); Hebrew ṣēl 'shade' and the name Ṣillāh (Gen 4:19); Ugaritic ẓl /ẓillu/ 'shade' (Huehnergard 2012). HT 90 SI-RU-MA-RI-TA₂, one word, fits the same 'Shade of DN' type.

## Attestations

- [HT 55a](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT55a/index.md>)

## References

- Huehnergard, John (2012), An Introduction to Ugaritic. Hendrickson
- AS 21: Gelb, Ignace J. (1980), Computer-aided Analysis of Amorite. Assyriological Studies 21,The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago
- APNM: Huffmon, Herbert B. (1965), Amorite Personal Names in the Mari Texts: A Structural and Lexical Study. The Johns Hopkins Press, Baltimore
- 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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