Tablet · Petras
PE 1
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Text5 lines
TranslationSpeculativeincomplete
The hay meadow: the villages, men 5̣0[ (53), grain 26½; E-KA[…], men 72, grain 36.
Word by word8 words
- U-KA-REʾugārthe field of (heading); rivals ʾikkār 'ploughman', the personal name UgārSpeculative
- A-SE-SI-NAḥašīšinof hay, of dry grass: ʾugār ḥašīšin 'the hay meadow' (heading, the field's name)Speculative
- KU-PA-RIkuparīthe villages, a group of men drawing grain; rival kaparrī 'junior shepherds'Speculative
- VIR+[?]men; the second element of the ligature is unread, 5̣0[ (53 restored)
- GRA+PA[ideogram]grain, parīsu measure, 26½
- E-KAa second group of men, broken after KA. Not readable.
- VIR+[?]men; the second element of the ligature is unread, 72
- GRA+PA[ideogram]grain, parīsu measure, 36
Commentary
Grain rations at ½ unit a head: 26½ is half of 53, restored from the broken 5̣0[, and 36 half of 72 (Younger, Linear A Texts, after Tsipopoulou & Hallager 1996, 25–30). KU-PA-RI and E-KA[ are two groups of men; KA-PA kapa(r) ‘village’ heads VIR+[?] 62 on HT 94a in the same frame. U-KA-RE A-SE-SI-NA ʾugār ḥašīšin ‘the hay meadow’ heads the list; men of the ugāru draw provisions in Akkadian: kurummat 27 ṣābī ša ú-ga-re-e īpušū ‘provisions for 27 men who worked the meadowlands’ (BE 14 56a:26; CAD U/W 30). The broken E-KA[ is unread. Line .6 is blank.