Tablet · Haghia Triada

HT 31

Site
Haghia Triada
Object
Tablet
Period
LM IB
Scribe
HT Scribe 12
Findspot
Villa Magazine
Edition
GORILA I

Text6 lines

Linear ATransliteration
  1. 1[?]-TI-SAPU-KO*410-VS
  2. 2[…]5*402-VS-QA-PA₃10*415-VS-SU-PU10
  3. 3]*416-VS-KA-RO-PA₃10SA-JA-MA30
  4. 410KI-DE-MA-*323-NA[
  5. 5*402-VS400*402-VS-SU-PA₃-RA300
  6. 6*402-VS-PA-TA-QE3000

TranslationProbable

Vessel inventory: [?]-TI-SA (unread). Flasks (PU-KO, *410-VS): 5. Goblets (QA-PA₃): 10. Bowls (SU-PU): 10. Carafes (KA-RO-PA₃): 10. Set (SA-JA-MA): 30[…]. […] 10. KI-DE-MA-*323-NA[ (unread) cups (*402-VS): 400. Pots (SU-PA₃-RA, *402-VS): 300. Winecups (PA-TA-QE, *402-VS): 3000.

Word by word7 words

  • PU-KOpukkuflask, vialCandidate
  • QA-PA₃qubaʿgoblet, cupProbable
  • SU-PUsapubowl, basinConfirmed
  • KA-RO-PA₃karbucarafe, drinking vesselProbable
  • SA-JA-MAśaymāset, arrangement (of vessels): 30[Speculative
  • SU-PA₃-RAsubārapotProbable
  • PA-TA-QEpitqēa kind of *402 cup; cf. Aramaic pitqa 'winecup'Candidate

Commentary

Context: Vessel inventory—the "virtual bilingual" (Stieglitz 1971). Minoan vessel names written over pictograms for each vessel type. The most important tablet for Semitic vessel-name identification.

Gordon’s HT 31 vessel quartet (§163), independently confirmed by Stieglitz (Kadmos 10, 1971) and Rendsburg (Ugaritic Dictionary, forthcoming). 6 of 8 vessel names have Semitic etymologies, PU-KO pukku ‘flask’ naming *410-VS. Ventris & Chadwick (1956, 323): "the difference in language is obvious." Quantities suggest institutional storage: 3000, 300 and 400 of the conical *402 cup.

Epigraphic note

GORILA I 59: .1 [·]-TI-SA · PU-KO · *410-VS[, a lost sign, not a divider, before TI; .4-5 KI-DE-MA-*323-NA[ ]vest., the word running into vestiges at the start of .5.

Linear A Lexicon