# HT 97a

A Linear A document: tablet from Haghia Triada.

- Site: Haghia Triada
- Object: Tablet
- Period: LM IB
- Scribe: HT Scribe 7
- Findspot: Casa Room 7
- Edition: [GORILA I](<https://linear-a.ai/bibliography/?w=src_698>)

## Text

1. [KA-RU](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/KA-RU/index.md>) \*307+\*307 [VIR+KA](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/VIR~2BKA/index.md>) 82
2. [\*327](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/*327/index.md>) 33
3. [KA-NU-TI](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/KA-NU-TI/index.md>) 25
4. [PA-I-TO](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/PA-I-TO/index.md>) 6
5. [DI](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/DI/index.md>) 4
6. NA-TI 4
7. [MA-DI](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/MA-DI/index.md>) 5
8. JU 15
9. KI 3
10. [ZU\[](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/ZU/index.md>) ]5
11. [TA-TI](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/TA-TI/index.md>) 2
12. DE-\[?\] 3[
13. \]A 5
14. \[…\]

## Translation

None proposed.

## Epigraphic note

GORILA I 159: .5 DI 4 over an erasure; .7 MA-DI 5, the 5 dotted; .10 ZU[ ]5, both dotted; .12 DE-[·] 3[, DE and 3 dotted, a lost sign after DE, not a divider; .13 ]A 5, the 5 dotted; traces of erasure in the first half of .1.

## Lexicon entries

- [PA-I-TO](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/PA-I-TO/index.md>) (Paito): Phaistos (place name). Confirmed.
- [KA-NU-TI](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/KA-NU-TI/index.md>) (Ganuti): place name, 25 men in the HT 97a roster beside PA-I-TO. Speculative.
- [DI](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/DI/index.md>) (dibšu): honey, fruit syrup—commodity abbreviation of *dibšu; rival dblt 'fig cake'. In personnel lists a separate single-sign abbreviation. Candidate.
- [VIR+KA](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/VIR~2BKA/index.md>) (VIR+KA): kāribū, intercessory priests (VIR with the KA complement). Candidate.
- [\*327](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/*327/index.md>): personnel-class logogram, counted beside VIR (men). Candidate.
- [TA-TI](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/TA-TI/index.md>) (Tati): personal name; rival tati 'father' (Luwian tati-). Candidate.
- [MA-DI](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/MA-DI/index.md>) (Maʾdi): place name: a unit of men and livestock in the HT rosters; rival the Hurrian personal name Madi 'wisdom'. Speculative.
- [KA-RU](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/KA-RU/index.md>) (karru): pasture, meadow (estate heading). Speculative.

## Images

[The document in SigLA](https://sigla.phis.me/document/HT%2097a/) (drawing and photographs, © École française d’Athènes).

## References

- 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

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Cite as: di Mino, Tom. 2026. Linear A Lexicon. Plasma AI. https://linear-a.ai/. Data: kaphtor, commit 50525edd.