# IO Za 9

A Linear A document: stone vessel from Iouktas.

- Site: Iouktas
- Object: Stone vessel
- Edition: [GORILA V](<https://linear-a.ai/bibliography/?w=src_377>)
- In 3D: [IO Za 9](<https://linear-a.ai/inscriptions/tpl-io-za-9/index.md>)

## Text

1. [JA-SA-SA-\[RA-ME\]](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/JA-SA-SA-RA-ME/index.md>)
2. [U-NA-KA-\[NA-SI\]](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/U-NA-KA-NA-SI/index.md>)

## Translation

- Tier: Confirmed
- Status: complete

In righteousness—so, behold my gathering!

## Word by word

| Word | Reading | Gloss | Tier |
|---|---|---|---|
| [JA-SA-SA-RA-ME](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/JA-SA-SA-RA-ME/index.md>) | yaššaram | in righteousness (adverbial accusative, √y-š-r) | Confirmed |
| [U-NA-KA-NA-SI](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/U-NA-KA-NA-SI/index.md>) | wannā kanāsī | so, 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.

## Lexicon entries

- [JA-SA-SA-RA-ME](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/JA-SA-SA-RA-ME/index.md>) (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](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/U-NA-KA-NA-SI/index.md>) (wannā kanāsī / winnā kanāsī): So, behold my gathering! (conjunction + presentative + G verbal noun kanāsī + 1cs -ī). Confirmed.
- [U-NA](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/U-NA/index.md>) (wannā): and behold (contracted conjunction + h-n presentative). Probable.

## References

- Palaima, Thomas G. (1988), The Development of the Mycenaean Writing System. In J.-P. Olivier & T. G. Palaima (eds.), Texts, Tablets and Scribes: Studies in Mycenaean Epigraphy and Economy Offered to Emmett L. Bennett, Jr., Suplementos a Minos 10, Universidad de Salamanca, pp. 269ff.
- 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
- Younger, John G. (2023), Linear A Texts and Inscriptions in Phonetic Transcription and Commentary. University of Kansas (people.ku.edu/~jyounger/LinearA/)

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