# PH 7a

A Linear A document: tablet from Phaistos.

- Site: Phaistos
- Object: Tablet
- Period: MM IIB
- Edition: [GORILA I](<https://linear-a.ai/bibliography/?w=src_698>)

## Text

1. \[…\]
2. [DI-PA-JA](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/DI-PA-JA/index.md>) \[…\]
3. [U-DI-RI-KI\[](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/U-DI-RI-KI/index.md>)
4. [\]JA-RU-MA-NE\[](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/JA-RU-MA-NE/index.md>)
5. JA-SI-DA-RA\[

## Translation

- Tier: Speculative
- Status: incomplete

Dipas (vessel). And the way[…]. […] Yarīmān […]. JA-SI-DA-RA[…].

## Word by word

| Word | Reading | Gloss | Tier |
|---|---|---|---|
| [DI-PA-JA](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/DI-PA-JA/index.md>) | dipaya | dipas, a large handled vessel | Candidate |
| [U-DI-RI-KI](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/U-DI-RI-KI/index.md>) | u-dirik | and the way/path | Candidate |
| [JA-RU-MA-NE](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/JA-RU-MA-NE/index.md>) | Yarīmān | Yarīmān (personal name) | Candidate |
| JA-SI-DA-RA\[ |  | broken after. Not readable. |  |

## Commentary

Upper edge broken; every line broken at the right (GORILA I 295). Reverse (PH7b) has quantities. .3 loses its start and end, .4 its last sign; .1 DI-PA-JA and .2 U-DI-RI-KI are whole. The traces after .2 and .3 may be dotted unit strokes, which would make the face a list of entries.

## Epigraphic note

GORILA I 295: upper edge broken; every line broken at the right. Left edge original on .1, .2 and .4, broken on .3 through JA. .1 DI-PA-JA[, a sign trace after JA (note .1); .2 U-DI-RI-KI[ and .3 ]JA-RU-MA-NE[, each with a trace after it, perhaps a dotted unit stroke (notes .2, .3); .4 JA-SỊ-DA-RẠ[, RA dotted in both transcriptions, SI in the second.

## Lexicon entries

- [DI-PA-JA](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/DI-PA-JA/index.md>) (dipaya): dipas, a large handled vessel (Linear B di-pa). Candidate.
- [JA-RU-MA-NE](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/JA-RU-MA-NE/index.md>) (Yarīmān): personal name, '(DN) is exalted', with hypocoristic -ān (Amorite type). Candidate.
- [U-DI-RI-KI](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/U-DI-RI-KI/index.md>) (u-dirik): conjunction u- "and" + dirik "way, path"—Hebrew derek דֶּרֶךְ, Akkadian darāku "to tread"; cross-ref DA-RE-KU (ZA18a, same √d-r-k skeleton, different vowel class). Candidate.

## Images

[The document in SigLA](https://sigla.phis.me/document/PH%207a/) (drawing and photographs, © École française d’Athènes).

## References

- DMic I: Aura Jorro, Francisco, Diccionario Micénico, vol. I (CSIC 1985). 
- DULAT: del Olmo Lete, Gregorio; Sanmartín, Joaquín (2015), A Dictionary of the Ugaritic Language in the Alphabetic Tradition. Brill, Leiden/Boston (Handbook of Oriental Studies 1/112); Third Revised Edition, tr. and ed. Wilfred G.E. Watson; 2 parts
- GORILA I: Godart, Louis; Olivier, Jean-Pierre (1976), Recueil des inscriptions en linéaire A, volume 1: Tablettes éditées avant 1970 (GORILA I). École française d'Athènes (Études crétoises XXI, 1); Librairie orientaliste Paul Geuthner, Paris

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Cite as: di Mino, Tom. 2026. Linear A Lexicon. Plasma AI. https://linear-a.ai/. Data: kaphtor, commit add28e94.