# KN Zb 40

A Linear A document: pithoid jar from Knossos.

- Site: Knossos
- Object: Pithoid jar
- Period: LM II
- Findspot: Unexplored Mansion
- Edition: [GORILA IV](<https://linear-a.ai/bibliography/?w=src_701>)
- In 3D: [KN Zb 40](<https://linear-a.ai/inscriptions/tpl-kn-zb-40/index.md>)

## Text

1. [A-PA-KI](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/A-PA-KI/index.md>)
2. [U-NA-A](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/U-NA-A/index.md>)

## Translation

- Status: complete

I weep—and here.

## Word by word

| Word | Reading | Gloss | Tier |
|---|---|---|---|
| [A-PA-KI](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/A-PA-KI/index.md>) | ʾabakki | I weep | Speculative |
| [U-NA-A](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/U-NA-A/index.md>) | wannā(h) / winnā(h) | and here, hither | Speculative |

## Commentary

Two complete three-sign groups are incised on separate lines of a pithoid jar. Findspot: Unexplored Mansion, Knossos; LM II destruction deposit, jar typologically LM I, inscription probably LM IB (Popham 1976, Kadmos 15; Owens 1998–99, Talanta 30–31, 147–48). The Mansion's upper floor held a domestic shrine with a goddess figurine (Owens). Both lexical identifications and the composite translation remain speculative.

## Epigraphic note

Two complete three-sign groups are incised on separate lines: A-PA-KI / U-NA-A. A-PA-KI is tentatively read /ʾabakki/ 'I weep', after the independently attested Akkadian G-present spelling a-bak-ki. U-NA-A is compared speculatively with Ugaritic hnh 'hither' (perhaps hn plus terminative -h; Tropper §81.11a). On that analysis the final A may write the vowel after an unrepresented /h/, rather than vowel length. The complete translation remains speculative.

## Lexicon entries

- [A-PA-KI](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/A-PA-KI/index.md>) (ʾabkī): I weep (G prefix form, 1cs); rival ʾabakki (G present). Speculative.
- [U-NA-A](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/U-NA-A/index.md>) (wannā(h) / winnā(h)): and here, hither. Speculative.

## Images

[The document in SigLA](https://sigla.phis.me/document/KN%20Zb%2040/) (drawing and photographs, © École française d’Athènes).

## References

- ORACC: Oracc Steering Committee, Oracc: The Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus. University of Pennsylvania Museum; CC BY-SA 3.0 unless otherwise stated
- Popham, Mervyn R. (1976), An inscribed pithoid jar from Knossos, with an appendix by Maurice Pope and Jacques Raison. Kadmos,15,102–107
- Owens, Gareth (1999), Late Minoan II Knossos: Minoan and/or Mycenaean?. Talanta,Supplementum Epigraphicum Mediterraneum 22,30–31,147–154
- Ya Diktu: di Mino, Tom (2026), Ya Diktu: Grammar of the Minoan Peak Sanctuary Libation Formula. Minoan Mystery, online,46 pp.

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