# TA-RA (ṯa(ġ)ra)

> gatekeepers (of the sanctuary); rival Akkadian tārû 'child-minder'

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

- Reading: ṯa(ġ)ra
- Type: Title; 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: [TA-RA](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/TA-RA/index.md>)

## Commentary

HT 89 TA-RA 5, last of five classes under A-SA-RA₂ · *307, KU-RO 87: ṯa(ġ)ra 'gatekeepers', Ugaritic ṯġr, a personnel class with grain rations (DULAT 888). Rival: Akkadian tārû 'male nursemaid' (CAD T 250). See the lexicon entry. One witness.

## Attestations

- [HT 89](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT89/index.md>)

## References

- DULAT: del Olmo Lete, Gregorio; Sanmartín, Joaquín (2015), A Dictionary of the Ugaritic Language in the Alphabetic Tradition. Brill, Leiden/Boston (Handbook of Oriental Studies 1/112); Third Revised Edition, tr. and ed. Wilfred G.E. Watson; 2 parts
- CAD T: Oriental Institute (Erica Reiner, ed.) (2006), The Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, vol. 18, T. The Oriental Institute, Chicago

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