Stone vessel · Iouktas

IO Za 9

Site
Iouktas
Object
Stone vessel
Period
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Scribe
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Findspot
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Edition
GORILA V

Text2 lines

Linear ATransliteration
  1. 1JA-SA-SA-[RA-ME]
  2. 2U-NA-KA-[NA-SI]

TranslationConfirmed

In righteousness—so, behold my gathering!

Word by word2 words

  • JA-SA-SA-RA-MEyaššaramin righteousness (adverbial accusative, √y-š-r)Confirmed
  • U-NA-KA-NA-SIwannā kanāsīso, behold my gathering!Confirmed

Commentary

IO Za 9 is preserved on the broken corner of a square marble libation table. Line a is retrograde and line b runs in the opposite direction, so both read outward from the corner (GORILA V, 32–33; Younger 2023, citing Palaima 1988, 310–12). Line a keeps ]JA-SA-SA- and line b U̇-NA-KA-[; GORILA and Younger restore RA-ME and NA-SI from the formula. Both words are read in full elsewhere: JA-SA-SA-RA-ME on IO Za 6 and PS Za 2, U-NA-KA-NA-SI on KO Za 1, PK Za 8, SY Za 2 and TL Za 1. PK Za 27 breaks after U-NA-KA- too.

Epigraphic note

Corner of a square marble libation table (HM 3898). Line a, retrograde, keeps ]JA-SA-SA- and line b, after the divider, U̇-NA-KA-[, the two running outward from the corner; GORILA restores RA-ME and NA-SI from the formula (V 32–33), as does Younger. JA-SA-SA-RA-ME is read in full on IO Za 6 and PS Za 2, U-NA-KA-NA-SI on KO Za 1, PK Za 8, SY Za 2 and TL Za 1.

Linear A Lexicon