Tablet · Haghia Triada
HT 100
- Site
- Haghia Triada
- Object
- Tablet
- Period
- LM IB
- Scribe
- —
- Findspot
- Casa Room 7
- Edition
- GORILA I
Text5 lines
TranslationCandidate
Personnel or accounting categories: VIR+KA 58, *304+PA [4 inferred], TI+A 12, KI 2, *305 5, VIR+*313a 16. Total: 97. For the queen/royal establishment: cyperus 5¼, figs 2⅓, wine 2½, oil (U) 2 + A706, anointing oil(?) 3, oil (NE) ¾.
Word by word14 words
- VIR+KA[ideogram]personnel category KA (male workers)
- *304+PApidru + PAunidentified counted category; quantity lost, 4 inferred from KU-RO 97Candidate
- TI+A[unknown]unknown compound sign
- KIadministrative category or logogram: 2
- *305personnel category; exact class unknownProbable
- VIR+*313a[ideogram]personnel category *313a
- KU-ROkulltotal, sumConfirmed
- SA-RA₂šarraqueen/princess or royal establishment (recipient heading)Candidate
- CYP[ideogram]cyperus, aromatic sedge
- NI[ideogram]figs
- VIN[ideogram]wine
- OLE+U[ideogram]olive oil subtype U
- OLE+MImišḥāanointing oilCandidate
- OLE+NE[ideogram]olive oil subtype NE
Commentary
Context: personnel register followed by a separate commodity allocation. The quantity after *304+PA is lost; including every preserved category requires 4, since 58+4+12+2+5+16=97. Montecchi’s alternative restores 6 and excludes KI 2 by expanding KI to KI-RO, but RO is not written. *305 is securely a personnel category, but its exact class is unknown. SA-RA₂ is a recipient or institutional heading; ‘queen/princess’ or ‘royal establishment’ remains CANDIDATE. OLE+MI is tentatively ‘anointing oil’: Hebrew šemen ham-mišḥā supplies the exact commodity expression, and Ugaritic mšḥ supports the root. CYP denotes cyperus. *304 is not read syllabically.