Stone object · Crete

CR Zg 4

Site
Crete
Object
Stone object
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Text2 lines

Linear ATransliteration
  1. 1I-DA-DA
  2. 2A-RO-TE

TranslationSpeculative

O Beloved! // Ḫaluti

Word by word2 words

  • I-DA-DAdādāO Beloved!—vocative of the reduplicative divine epithet; rival a personal nameSpeculative
  • A-RO-TEḪalutiḪaluti (woman's name, the seal's owner); rival ʾālôt 'oaths, curses'Speculative

Commentary

A steatite reel seal (CMS XII 96, Metropolitan Museum), read from the impression: face a (palm/volute relief) I-DA-DA, face b (lozenge-net relief) A-RO-TE, as the CMS drawing labels them; Younger letters the faces the other way (Younger, Linear A Texts, citing Raison–Pope 1994, 242–43). Unattributed Cretan provenance.

Linear A Lexicon