Graffito · Haghia Triada
HT Zd 157+156
- Site
- Haghia Triada
- Object
- Graffito
- Period
- LMIB
- Scribe
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- Findspot
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Text1 line
- 1WI-JA-SU-MA-TI-TI-A319NE1NE1¹⁄₂A3192¹⁄₄A3193³⁄₈TA-JA¹⁄₁₆
TranslationCandidateincomplete
HT Zd 157: WI-JA-SU [recipient's name] · MA-TI-TI 'gift' · A319 [unidentified commodity]. HT Zd 156: NE 1 · NE 1½ · A319 2¼ · A319 3⅜ · TA-JA 1/16.
Word by word3 words
- WI-JA-SU-MA-TI-TIWI-JA-SU | MA-TI-TI. WI-JA-SU is likely the recipient's name, with no reading. MA-TI-TI 'gift' (Heb. mattat, HALOT 656). The rival √š-m-ṭ parse needs TI-TI to write a geminate
- A319unidentified commodity logogram, no sound value; five tokens in four documents. On HT Zd 156 it takes 2¼ and 3⅜ after two NE signsCandidate
- TA-JAunread—a 2-consonant glide skeleton, within chance; probably a commodity/payer abbreviation on the final fraction line
Commentary
GORILA IV 132–35 presents HT Zd 156 (HM 53) and HT Zd 157 (HM 54) as separate stucco fragments from the same wall; their continuation is possible but not physically demonstrated. HT Zd 156 runs NE 1, NE 1½, A319 2¼, A319 3⅜, each figure half again the one before.
Epigraphic note
GORILA IV 132–35: HT Zd 156 (HM 53) and HT Zd 157 (HM 54) are separate stucco fragments; their continuation is possible but not physically demonstrated. HT Zd 157 reads | · WI-JA-SU-MA-TI-TI-A319, opening with a stroke and a divider as A-JU · opens HT Zd 155, with no divider before MA and wear from SU through A319; MA is drawn differently in the two transcriptions. HT Zd 156 begins with two NE signs, then A319 2¼ and A319 3⅜. Five A319 tokens occur across HT132, HT Zd 155, HT Zd 156 (twice) and HT Zd 157; A319 has no sound value.