# KN Zf 31 A Linear A document: metal object from Knossos. - Site: Knossos - Object: Metal object - Edition: [GORILA IV]() - In 3D: [KN Zf 31]() ## Text 1. [\]SI\[]() \]SI-ZA-NE-\*310 [DA-DU-MI-NE]() [QA-MI-\*47-NA-RA]() [A-WA-PI]() [TE-SU-DE-SE-KE-I]() [A-DA-RA]() [TI-DI-TE-QA-TI]() [TA-SA-ZA]() [TA-TE-I-KE-ZA-RE]() ## Translation - Status: incomplete ]SI[ ]SI-ZA-NE-*310, Dādu-Mīnō, 'Beloved of Minos', who stands, he is fire, ʾAwpiʿ, 'he shone forth': she serves; give him drink! The pin: fix it, you have fastened it. She will remember, by that with which one curls the hair. ## Word by word | Word | Reading | Gloss | Tier | |---|---|---|---| | SI-SI-ZA-NE-\*310 | | ]SI[ standing alone, then ]SI-ZA-NE-*310, broken before SI (GORILA IV 155). Not readable. | | | [DA-DU-MI-NE]() | dādu-Mīnō | Beloved of Minos (theophoric PN) | Speculative | | [QA-MI-\*47-NA-RA]() | qāmī šū-nāra | personal name, 'who stands: He is fire': qāmī, as Amorite Qawmī-ʾIl (Gelb 1980, no. 1743), + šū-nāra, the Ebla type šū-X 'he is X' (Pagan 1998); nār 'fire' against nūr 'light' in *47-NU-RA-JA | Speculative | | [A-WA-PI]() | ʾawpiʿ | personal name, 'he shone forth' (causative of *wpʿ 'be brilliant', Huffmon 1965, 212; Heb. hôpîaʿ) | Speculative | | [TE-SU-DE-SE-KE-I]() | tesʾad šeqī | 'she serves; give (him) drink!': tesʾad, 3fs of √s-ʔ-d 'to serve, comfort', the U of SU standing for the ʾ, + šeqī, 2fs imperative of √š-q-y 'to offer drink' (DULAT 740, 827) | Speculative | | [A-DA-RA]() | ʾadra | the fibula, the pin (Ug. adr 'fibula', DULAT 22), first word of the second line | Speculative | | [TI-DI-TE-QA-TI]() | tidī teqaʿti | 'fix it, you have fastened it': tidī, imperative of √w-t-d 'to fix a peg', + teqaʿti 'you (f.) have fastened', √t-q-ʿ, the verb of the pin in Samson's braids (Judg 16:13–14) | Speculative | | [TA-SA-ZA]() | taḫsaz | she remembers: 3fs prefix of √ḫ-s-s 'to remember', the Ugaritic prefix form tḫss (DULAT 405), ḫ unwritten as a syllable coda | Speculative | | [TA-TE-I-KE-ZA-RE]() | ṯāt ʾikezzer | with which one curls (the hair): ṯāt 'which', the relative (Ug. d, dt), + ʾikezzer, present of Akkadian kezēru 'to curl the hair' (CAD K 316), as in EA 14 ii 56, silver spatulas 'with which one curls hair'; KE dotted (GORILA IV 154–155) | Speculative | ## Commentary Longest multi-word metal inscription in the Linear A corpus. 8 of 9 words are hapax legomena. Eight words are read, all SPECULATIVE; ]SI-ZA-NE-*310 is broken and unread. GORILA IV 155 prints two lines; ]SI[ stands apart before the first. The first line names the man, DA-DU-MI-NE, QA-MI-*47-NA-RA and A-WA-PI being name shapes at Ebla, Mari and Ugarit; 'who stands: He is fire' and 'he shone forth' are the theophany's words (Ps 68:2; 50:2–3). It closes with the woman's charge to serve him. The second line opens with A-DA-RA, the pin naming itself, and speaks to its wearer: she fastens it, and remembers him by it when she curls her hair. A man's gift of a silver hair pin to a woman, a row of crocus blossoms on the reverse. Three of its verbs, √s-ʔ-d, √š-q-y and √ḫ-s-s, meet in one Ugaritic scene: Kothar-wa-Ḫasis brings the bow, and Danatiya gives him drink and serves him (KTU 1.17 V 19–31). The opening is corroded, about three signs lost between ]SI[ and ]SI-ZA-NE-*310 (GORILA IV 154): the likeliest place for the woman's name, the subject of both 'she' verbs. The tail ZA-NE-*310 may be zānin 'provider', Akkadian zāninu, the king who feeds a temple (CAD Z 43, 45; √z-w-n, Heb. māzôn), *310 writing -in as in KI-*310-RE kinnāre: the man's first title, answered by 'she serves; give him drink'. SI would then end a word joined to it, as TE-SU-DE-SE-KE-I joins two. Rival: *310 as ni, a Hurrian name in -zanni, -zinni (Izzanni, ARM XVI/1 133; Izzinni, PIHANS 117, 132). ## Epigraphic note GORILA IV 155: line 2 TA-TE-I-KE-ZA-RE · [, KE dotted in both transcriptions and drawn differently in each. GORILA IV 154 (drawing): line 1 begins on the hook, whose bend is corroded. ]SI[ stands on the hook arm, room for about one sign above it before the broken tip; about three sign-spaces are lost between it and ]SI-ZA-NE-*310, whose SI survives as a trace. ## Lexicon entries - [A-DA-RA]() (ʾadra): the fibula, the pin; rivals ʾAdara 'the Strong One' (epithet), ʾaddart- 'mantle'. Speculative. - [A-WA-PI]() (ʾawpiʿ): personal name, 'he shone forth' (causative of w-p-ʿ 'be brilliant'). Speculative. - [DA-DU-MI-NE]() (dādu-Mīnō): Beloved of Minos (compound theophoric name). Speculative. - [QA-MI-\*47-NA-RA]() (qāmī šū-nāra): personal name, 'who stands: He is fire'. Speculative. - [TA-SA-ZA]() (taḫsaz): she remembers. Speculative. - [TA-TE-I-KE-ZA-RE]() (ṯāt ʾikezzer): with which one curls (the hair). Speculative. - [TE-SU-DE-SE-KE-I]() (tesʾad šeqī): she serves; give (him) drink! Speculative. - [TI-DI-TE-QA-TI]() (tidī teqaʿti): 'fix it, you have fastened it' (of the pin); rival Tidiʿ-Teqaʿt, personal name 'Teqaʿt knows', after one of the Kotharat. Speculative. ## References - KTU: Dietrich, Manfried; Loretz, Oswald; Sanmartín, Joaquín (2013), Die keilalphabetischen Texte aus Ugarit, Ras Ibn Hani und anderen Orten / The Cuneiform Alphabetic Texts from Ugarit, Ras Ibn Hani and Other Places (KTU³). Ugarit-Verlag, Münster (Alter Orient und Altes Testament 360/1); ISBN 978-3-86835-014-2 - CAD Z: Oriental Institute (A. Leo Oppenheim, ed.) (1961), The Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, vol. 21, Z. The Oriental Institute, Chicago; J. J. Augustin, Glückstadt - GORILA IV: Godart, Louis; Olivier, Jean-Pierre (1982), Recueil des inscriptions en linéaire A, volume 4: Autres documents (GORILA IV). École française d'Athènes (Études crétoises XXI, 4); Librairie orientaliste Paul Geuthner, Paris --- Page: https://linear-a.ai/texts/KNZf31/ 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 50525edd.