# SI-TE (Ṣīt)

> the East, lit. 'the going-out (of the sun)', a name for eastern Crete; rival ṣīt 'issue, outlay'

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

- Reading: Ṣīt
- Type: Place; 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: Miletos, Zakros
- Lexicon: [SI-TE](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/SI-TE/index.md>)

## 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 MIL Zb 3, the second witness, is unpublished (Younger, Linear A Texts).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.

## Attestations

- [ZA 26a](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/ZA26a/index.md>)
- [MIL Zb 3](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/MILZb3/index.md>)

## References

- Cline, Eric H.; Stannish, Steven M. (2011), Sailing the Great Green Sea? Amenhotep III's "Aegean List" from Kom el-Hetan, Once More. Journal of Ancient Egyptian Interconnections,3:2,6–16
- GORILA III: Godart, Louis; Olivier, Jean-Pierre (1976), Recueil des inscriptions en linéaire A, volume 3: Tablettes, nodules et rondelles édités en 1975 et 1976 (GORILA III). École française d'Athènes (Études crétoises XXI, 3); Librairie orientaliste Paul Geuthner, Paris

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