# SU-KI-RI-TE-I-JA (Sukritēya)

> of Sukrita (Sybrita): origin label on a jar

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

- Reading: Sukritēya
- Type: Place or gentilic; confidence Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once.
- Language: Semitic; confidence Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once.
- Sites: Haghia Triada
- Lexicon: [SU-KI-RI-TE-I-JA](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/SU-KI-RI-TE-I-JA/index.md>)

## Commentary

Only word on side b of the HT Zb 158 jar (GORILA IV 65); side a reads [·]-TU-SE-SU-KI. Gentilic on SU-KI-RI-TA (PH Wa 32), the vowel of KI dead before RI: Sukrita, Greek Σύβριτα, a Cretan town at Thronos in the Amari valley. Ventris and Chadwick read LB su-ki-ri-ta as Sugrita, KI for /gi/; the later β is the Pre-Greek β/γ alternation of βληχών/γλαχών and βλέπω/γλέπω, not a regular labio-velar outcome (Chadwick & Baumbach 1963). Davis (Aura Suppl. 13, 46) pairs the two forms as alternating endings. -TE-I-JA has no other Linear A witness; SE-TO-I-JA (PR Za 1) shares -I-JA. The ending can be the Semitic nisba *-iy- (fem. *-iyya), the suffix of gentilics such as Ugaritic ugrty /ʾugaritiyyu/ 'man of Ugarit' (Arabic nisba, Fischer §116); Anatolian -iya- fits it as well.

## Attestations

- [HT Zb 158b](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HTZb158b/index.md>)

## References

- Chadwick, John; Baumbach, Lydia (1963), The Mycenaean Greek Vocabulary. Glotta,41.3/4,Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht,157–271
- GORILA IV: Godart, Louis; Olivier, Jean-Pierre (1982), Recueil des inscriptions en linéaire A, volume 4: Autres documents (GORILA IV). École française d'Athènes (Études crétoises XXI, 4); Librairie orientaliste Paul Geuthner, Paris

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