Place · Semitic
SI-TE
the East, lit. 'the going-out (of the sun)', a name for eastern Crete; rival ṣīt 'issue, outlay'
- Reading
- Ṣīt
- Type
- Place Candidate
- Language
- Semitic Candidate
- Sites
- Miletos, Zakros
- Attestations
- 2
- Lexicon
- SI-TE
Commentary
ZA 26a .1 SI-TE · DI-DI-[, the first group of the tablet, intact and undotted (GORILA III 202–203). MIL Zb 3, the second witness, is unpublished (Younger, Linear A Texts). Ṣīt ‘the East’, √y-ṣ-ʾ (PS *wVṣ̂Vʾ-), a name for eastern Crete; the Kom el-Hetan list’s damaged [sȝ]-i-tȝ-[y], tentatively Siteia (Cline & Stannish 2011, 10), compares.
Compared forms
From the lexicon entry SI-TE.
- Akkadianṣītumṣītum 'rise, rising (of sun), east; emergence, birth, origin; produce, product; lease; expenditure, loss‘ (Huehnergard 1997, glossary); NIM read ṣīti ’east‘ (ORACC CAMS/GKAB, P348764); Tâmtu ša ṣīt Šamši ’the Sea of the Rising Sun' (RGTC 7/3, s.v.)
- Hebrewמוֹצָאmôṣāʾmôṣāʾ (מוֹצָא) ‘going out; east’, against maʿărāb ‘west’ (Ps 75:7); ṣēʾt (צֵאת) ‘going out’, kə-ṣēʾt ha-šemeš ‘as the going-out of the sun’ (Judg 5:31)