# PE 1

A Linear A document: tablet from Petras.

- Site: Petras
- Object: Tablet
- Period: LM IB

## Text

1. [U-KA-RE](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/U-KA-RE/index.md>) [A-SE-SI-NA](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/A-SE-SI-NA/index.md>)
2. [KU-PA-RI](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/KU-PA-RI/index.md>) VIR+\[?\] 50
3. [GRA+PA](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/GRA~2BPA/index.md>) 26 ¹⁄₂
4. E-KA VIR+\[?\] 72
5. [GRA+PA](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/GRA~2BPA/index.md>) 36

## Translation

- Tier: Speculative
- Status: incomplete

The hay meadow: the villages, men 5̣0[ (53), grain 26½; E-KA[…], men 72, grain 36.

## Word by word

| Word | Reading | Gloss | Tier |
|---|---|---|---|
| [U-KA-RE](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/U-KA-RE/index.md>) | ʾugār | the field of (heading); rivals ʾikkār 'ploughman', the personal name Ugār | Speculative |
| [A-SE-SI-NA](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/A-SE-SI-NA/index.md>) | ḥašīšin | of hay, of dry grass: ʾugār ḥašīšin 'the hay meadow' (heading, the field's name) | Speculative |
| [KU-PA-RI](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/KU-PA-RI/index.md>) | kuparī | the 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](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/GRA~2BPA/index.md>) | \[ideogram\] | grain, parīsu measure, 26½ |  |
| E-KA |  | a second group of men, broken after KA. Not readable. |  |
| VIR+\[?\] |  | men; the second element of the ligature is unread, 72 |  |
| [GRA+PA](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/GRA~2BPA/index.md>) | \[ideogram\] | 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.

## Lexicon entries

- [GRA+PA](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/GRA~2BPA/index.md>) (parīsu): parīsu, the half-gur grain measure (CAD P 186; DULAT 671–672 prś). Candidate.
- [A-SE-SI-NA](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/A-SE-SI-NA/index.md>) (ḥašīšin): of dry grass, of hay (genitive with nunation; ʾugār ḥašīšin 'the hay meadow', the field's name). Speculative.
- [KU-PA-RI](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/KU-PA-RI/index.md>) (kuparī): the villages, a group of men drawing grain; rival kaparrī 'junior shepherds'. Speculative.
- [U-KA-RE](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/U-KA-RE/index.md>) (ʾugār): the field (of), meadowland (heading of a grain-ration list); rivals ʾikkār 'ploughman', the personal name Ugār. Speculative.

## Images

[The document in SigLA](https://sigla.phis.me/document/PE%201/) (drawing and photographs, © École française d’Athènes).

## References

- HALOT: Koehler, Ludwig; Baumgartner, Walter; Stamm, Johann Jakob; Richardson, M. E. J. (trans. and ed.) (1994), The Hebrew and Aramaic Lexicon of the Old Testament, vols. I–IV. E. J. Brill, Leiden · New York · Köln
- Lane: Lane, Edward William (1863), An Arabic-English Lexicon. Williams and Norgate, London
- CAD U/W: Oriental Institute (Martha T. Roth, ed.) (2010), The Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, vol. 20, U and W. The Oriental Institute, Chicago
- Tsipopoulou, Metaxia; Hallager, Erik (1996), Inscriptions with Hieroglyphs and Linear A from Petras, Siteia. Studi Micenei ed Egeo-Anatolici,37,Istituti Editoriali e Poligrafici Internazionali, Roma,41

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Cite as: di Mino, Tom. 2026. Linear A Lexicon. Plasma AI. https://linear-a.ai/. Data: kaphtor, commit 50525edd.