# IO Za 2 A Linear A document: stone vessel from Iouktas. - Site: Iouktas - Object: Stone vessel - Period: MM III – LM I - Edition: [GORILA V]() - In 3D: [IO Za 2]() ## Text 1. [A-TA-I-\*301-WA-JA]() [JA-DI-KI-TU]() [JA-SA-SA-RA-\[ME\]]() [\[U-NA-KA-NA\]-SI]() [I-PI-NA-MA]() 2. [SI-RU-TE]() [TA-NA-RA-TE-U-TI-NU]() I-DA-\[?\] ## Translation - Tier: Probable - Status: complete I make myself a dwelling—O Diqqitu!—in righteousness. So, behold my gathering in the presence of sacred song. May you be favorable toward us. ## Word by word | Word | Reading | Gloss | Tier | |---|---|---|---| | [A-TA-I-\*301-WA-JA]() | ʾatainawaya | I make myself a dwelling | Confirmed | | [JA-DI-KI-TU]() | yā Diqqitu | O Diqqitu! | Probable | | [JA-SA-SA-RA-\[ME\]]() | yaššaram | in righteousness | Confirmed | | [\[U-NA-KA-NA\]-SI]() | wannā kanāsī / winnā kanāsī | So, behold my gathering! | Confirmed | | [I-PI-NA-MA]() | ʾippina=ma | in the presence of | Probable | | [SI-RU-TE]() | šīrūt | sacred song | Probable | | [TA-NA-RA-TE-U-TI-NU]() | tan-raṣē-u-tī-n(u) | May you be favorable toward us | Probable | | I-DA-\[?\] | ʾIda-\[…\] | [Ida…] (broken and untranslated) | Speculative | ## Commentary Context: Peak sanctuary libation formula—fullest attestation. PRESERVATION: Five groups are fully preserved. Positions 3–4 are partly or largely restored: line 1 breaks after JA-SA-SA-RA- on face c and resumes with final -SI on face d; GORILA restores [ME · U-NA-KA-NA] from the parallel formulae (GORILA V, 19). The composite translation includes those editorial restorations and reads *301 as /na/: Kober triplets across 17 formula variants point to the verbal root n-w-y 'to dwell' (Ug. nawû, Heb. nāweh), substitution yields 9 independent NWS readings, and NA outperforms the rival r(V) value 9 to 2. ANALYSIS: TA-NA-RA-TE-U-TI-NU is provisionally read from √r-ṣ-y, with analogical 2fs marking followed by a 1cp object; an n-extension remains the principal alternative. STRUCTURE: (1) invocation, positions 1–3; (2) presentation, positions 4–6, with wannā as the hinge and the gathering placed before sacred song; (3) petition, position 7. Diqqitu is compared with Astour's Diqet, the goat-goddess (Ugaritic dqt, √d-q-q; Astour 1966). Position 3 is translated adverbially as *yaššaram*, 'in righteousness'; a divine-name layer remains a secondary possibility. FINAL BREAK: I-DA-[ is untranslated. It is not a standalone I: GORILA V, 18–19 reads I-DA-[, and Younger estimates a word of approximately six signs. Line 2 ends in the break on face c; face d line 2 is vacat. A related sequence follows the closing petition at Iouktas on IO Za 11 (]U-TI-NU · I-NA-I-DA-•[). ## Epigraphic note GORILA V, 18–19: four-sided libation table, two lines around faces a–d. Line 1: JA-SA-SA-RA-[ME · U-NA-KA-NA]-SI ⌊·⌋ I-PI-NA-MA; face c breaks after RA and face d resumes at SI; GORILA restores ME and U-NA-KA-NA from the formula (V 19). Line 2 ends TA-NA-RA-TE-U-TI-NU · I-DA-[: I closes face b and DA opens face c, joined by a hyphen into the break, with no divider between them in the transcription or the facsimile (GORILA V 19, 18). Younger: the last word probably had about six signs. ## Lexicon entries - [A-TA-I-\*301-WA-JA]() (ʾatainawaya): I make myself a dwelling (1cs tG-stem middle-reflexive denominative of √NWY). Confirmed. - [JA-SA-SA-RA-ME]() (yaššaram): in righteousness (adverbial accusative in -am of √y-š-r; also 'righteously'); rival: substantivized "the upright/proper [thing]" in an object slot. Polysemic layer: masculine divine name Yasharam (Akk. Mīšarum, Phoen. Misor). Confirmed. - [U-NA-KA-NA-SI]() (wannā kanāsī / winnā kanāsī): So, behold my gathering! (conjunction + presentative + G verbal noun kanāsī + 1cs -ī). Confirmed. - [JA-DI-KI-TU]() (yā Diqqitu): O Diqqitu! (vocative invocation of the proposed goat-goddess Diqqitu). Probable. - [SI-RU-TE]() (šīrūt): sacred song, hymnody (abstract in -ūt of √š-y-r "sing"). Probable. - [I-PI-NA-MA]() (ʾippina=ma): in the presence of. Probable. - [U-NA]() (wannā): and behold (contracted conjunction + h-n presentative). Probable. - [TA-NA-RA-TE-U-TI-NU]() (tan-raṣē-u-tī-n(u)): may you (f.) be favorable toward us (N-stem of √r-ṣ-y + indicative -u + analogical 2fs subject clitic -tī + 1cp object -n). Probable. - [U-TI-NU]() (-u-tī-n(u)): verbal ending: indicative -u + 2fs -tī + -n(u) 'us'. Candidate. ## References - Astour, Michael C. (1966), Some New Divine Names from Ugarit. Journal of the American Oriental Society,86(3),277–284 - GORILA V: Godart, Louis; Olivier, Jean-Pierre (1985), Recueil des inscriptions en linéaire A, volume 5: Addenda, corrigenda, concordances, index et planches des signes (GORILA V). École française d'Athènes (Études crétoises XXI, 5); Librairie orientaliste Paul Geuthner, Paris --- Page: https://linear-a.ai/texts/IOZa2/ 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.