# HT 123+124b A Linear A document: tablet from Haghia Triada. - Site: Haghia Triada - Object: Tablet - Period: LMIB - Scribe: HT Scribe 6 - Findspot: Casa del Lebete - Edition: [GORILA I]() ## Text 1. [\*188-\*308]() 11 2. \*312 1 ³⁄₄ 3. [TI-DA-TA]() 4. [PI-SA]() 4 5. [\*188]() 1 6. \*188-DU 10 7. [TU-PA-DI-DA]() J+L2 8. [KA-NA]() \[…\] 9. \]SI-DU A701 10. [DU-MA-I-NA]() ³⁄₈ 11. [KU-RO]() 20 12. [KI-RO]() 5 ## Translation - Tier: Candidate - Status: incomplete Pistacia/terebinth oil or processed product(?): 11; *312: 1¾. Sixth(?) [section]. Pīsa(?): 4. Pistacia/terebinth product(?): 1. DU-qualified *188 product: 10. The best of beer: J+L2. Sweet cane(?): [quantity lost]. ]SI-DU: A701. He of the Spring: ⅜. Total: 20. Owed: 5[…]. ## Word by word | Word | Reading | Gloss | Tier | |---|---|---|---| | [\*188-\*308]() | buṭnu šamni | Pistacia/terebinth oil or related processed product(?) | Candidate | | \*312 | | unidentified logogram, 1¾ | | | [TI-DA-TA]() | ṯidṯīta | sixth, the sixth section | Candidate | | [PI-SA]() | Pīsa | recipient name | Speculative | | [\*188]() | buṭnu | Pistacia/terebinth product(?) | Probable | | \*188-DU | \[commodity subtype\] | DU-qualified *188 product | Candidate | | [TU-PA-DI-DA]() | ṭūb-dida | the best of beer (beer extract), J+L2 | Speculative | | [KA-NA]() | qānā / qanû | sweet cane or reed(?) | Candidate | | SI-DU | | broken word, ]SI-DU, A701. Not readable. | | | [DU-MA-I-NA]() | ḏū-maʿīna | He of the Spring (personal name), ⅜; rival a product, '(the drink) of the spring' | Speculative | | [KU-RO]() | kull | total, sum | Confirmed | | [KI-RO]() | kilʾu | owed, outstanding balance | Confirmed | ## Commentary GORILA I, 212–213. The tablet is broken through line 4 after KA-NA, and the missing area probably contained a numerical entry. The divider after TI-DA-TA is not the numeral 1. Under Corazza et al. 2021, J+L2 equals 11/20 and A701 is tentatively 1/24; those authors excluded HT123b itself from their sample because its readings and arithmetic are doubtful. Cash and Cash 2012 explore a three-group account with deductions but require disputed readings and restorations, so their arithmetic model is not adopted here. The closing KU-RO and KI-RO establish a total and an outstanding amount, but the damaged intermediate entries do not permit a complete reconstruction. ## Epigraphic note Two joining fragments from the Casa del Lebete; the central lacuna interrupts line 4 after KA-NA and probably removes a numerical entry before SI-DU. GORILA and Younger read TU-PA-DI-DA, with AB003 PA; the imported SigLA layer instead labels that sign AB002 RO. The GORILA/Younger reading is retained while the conflict is recorded. The final KI-RO is 5 followed by a break, not 5+A701. The divider after TI-DA-TA is a word-separator dot, not the numeral 1. Cash and Cash (2012, 53–55) stress the uncertain divider/number readings and missing quantity; Corazza et al. (2021, 8–9) exclude HT 123b from their fractional sample because of doubtful readings and scribal errors. ## Lexicon entries - [KU-RO]() (kull): total, sum (accounting term). Confirmed. - [KI-RO]() (kilʾu): owed, outstanding balance (deficit)—transaction term heading deficit sections. Confirmed. - [\*188]() (buṭnu): commodity ideogram, a Pistacia/terebinth product (resin, mastic or nuts). Probable. - [\*308]() (šamnu): pressed oil, oil derivative—commodity modifier indicating oil extraction from base commodity. Probable. - [KA-NA]() (qana / qanû): aromatic reed, sweet cane (commodity; spelling variant of QA-NE). Candidate. - [\*188-\*308]() (buṭnu šamni): terebinth oil, the Pistacia product *188 with *308 'pressed oil'. Candidate. - [TI-DA-TA]() (ṯidṯīta): sixth, the sixth section. Candidate. - [PI-SA]() (Pīsa): personal name, '(a bird)', Akk. būṣu; rival an institution; a recipient. Speculative. - [DU-MA-I-NA]() (ḏū-maʿīna): He of the Spring (personal name; ḏū 'he of' + maʿīn 'spring, flowing water'); rival a product, '(the drink) of the spring'. Speculative. - [TU-PA-DI-DA]() (ṭūb-dida): the best of beer (compound; ṭūb 'the best of' + dida 'beer extract'). Speculative. ## References - Cash, Roland; Cash, Evelyne (2012), La tablette HT 123: une comptabilité en linéaire A. Kadmos,50,33–62 - Corazza, Michele; Ferrara, Silvia; Montecchi, Barbara; Tamburini, Fabio; Valério, Miguel (2021), The mathematical values of fraction signs in the Linear A script: A computational, statistical and typological approach. Journal of Archaeological Science,125 - APNM: Huffmon, Herbert B. (1965), Amorite Personal Names in the Mari Texts: A Structural and Lexical Study. The Johns Hopkins Press, Baltimore - HALOT: Koehler, Ludwig; Baumgartner, Walter; Stamm, Johann Jakob; Richardson, M. E. J. (trans. and ed.) (1994), The Hebrew and Aramaic Lexicon of the Old Testament, vols. I–IV. E. J. Brill, Leiden · New York · Köln - 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 B: Oriental Institute (A. Leo Oppenheim and Erica Reiner, eds.) (1965), The Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, vol. 2, B. The Oriental Institute, Chicago; J. J. Augustin, Glückstadt - GORILA I: Godart, Louis; Olivier, Jean-Pierre (1976), Recueil des inscriptions en linéaire A, volume 1: Tablettes éditées avant 1970 (GORILA I). École française d'Athènes (Études crétoises XXI, 1); Librairie orientaliste Paul Geuthner, Paris --- Page: https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT123~2B124b/ Licence: CC BY 4.0 for the translations and commentary; the corpus keeps its sources’ terms, SigLA’s records CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 Cite as: di Mino, Tom. 2026. Linear A Lexicon. Plasma AI. https://linear-a.ai/. Data: kaphtor, commit add28e94.