# PK Za 11

A Linear A document: stone vessel from Palaikastro.

- Site: Palaikastro
- Object: Stone vessel
- Edition: [GORILA IV](<https://linear-a.ai/bibliography/?w=src_701>)
- In 3D: [PK Za 11](<https://linear-a.ai/inscriptions/tpl-pk-za-11/index.md>)

## Text

1. [A-TA-I-\*301-WA-E](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/A-TA-I-*301-WA-E/index.md>) A-DI-KI-TE-TE-\[?\]
2. \[?\]-RE [PI-TE-RI](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/PI-TE-RI/index.md>) [A-KO-A-NE](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/A-KO-A-NE/index.md>) A
3. SA-SA-RA-ME [U-NA-RU-KA-NA-TI](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/U-NA-RU-KA-NA-TI/index.md>)
4. [I-PI-NA-MI-NA](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/I-PI-NA-MI-NA/index.md>) SI-RU-\[?\] [I-NA-JA-PA-QA](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/I-NA-JA-PA-QA/index.md>)

## Translation

- Tier: Candidate
- Status: complete

I, Pitrī the priest, make myself a dwelling—O Diktaean of the Sanctuary—in righteousness. So, behold, may you gather! In the presence of song… […] …Behold, he opens (his eyes)!

## Word by word

| Word | Reading | Gloss | Tier |
|---|---|---|---|
| [A-TA-I-\*301-WA-E](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/A-TA-I-*301-WA-E/index.md>) | ʾatainawē | I make myself a dwelling | Confirmed |
| A-DI-KI-TE-TE-\[DU-PU₂\]-RE | ʾa-Diqqitīt \[dubu\]r | O Diktaean of the Sanctuary | Candidate |
| [PI-TE-RI](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/PI-TE-RI/index.md>) | piṭrī | Pitrī/Puṭrī (personal name) | Candidate |
| [A-KO-A-NE](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/A-KO-A-NE/index.md>) | ha-kōhan | the priest (proposed title) | Candidate |
| [A-SA-SA-RA-ME](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/A-SA-SA-RA-ME/index.md>) | ʾaššaram | in righteousness (cf. IO Za 2) | Confirmed |
| [U-NA-RU-KA-NA-TI](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/U-NA-RU-KA-NA-TI/index.md>) | wannā lū kanasti / winnā lū kanasti | so, behold, may you gather! | Candidate |
| [I-PI-NA-MI-NA](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/I-PI-NA-MI-NA/index.md>) | ʾippina=mi=na | in the presence of | Candidate |
| SI-RU-\[?\] | šīrū | song | Probable |
| [I-NA-JA-PA-QA](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/I-NA-JA-PA-QA/index.md>) | hinna yapqaḥ | Behold, he opens (his eyes)! | Candidate |

## Commentary

Context: Peak sanctuary libation formula—longest liturgical inscription (11 words, 25 signs). Palaikastro dialect.

Complete 11-word liturgical inscription—longest in the corpus. The surface order is opening verb → invoked deity and title → proposed speaker's name and priestly title → adverbial formula element → standard body → lacuna → unique closure. Davis (2013, 42–43) and Thomas (2020, 8–10) independently place PI-TE-RI A-KO-A-NE in the subject/dedicant slot, though they infer two names rather than a name plus title. Reading the pair as 'Pitrī, the priest' supplies the explicit subject of the first-person opening without an unattested 'first-offering' or an unsupported plural vocative. The lacuna between SI-RU and I-NA-JA-PA-QA separates the formula from a masculine verbal closure whose subject remains unnamed.

## Epigraphic note

GORILA IV 34: side a ends A-DI-KI-TE-TE-[·], side b opens [·]-RE (RE dotted), one group round the corner with no divider, restored A-DI-KI-TE-TE-[DU-PU₂]-RE from PK Za 15 JA-DI-KI-TE-TE-DU-PU₂-RE and PK Za 8 JA-DI-KI-TE-TE-*307-PU₂-RE, as IO Za 2 restores ME and U-NA-KA-NA from the formula (GORILA V 19). GORILA allows KỤ, Ụ or DỤ for the last sign of side a. Side d SI-RU-[·], one lost sign (SI-RU-DU not excluded). Side b PI-TE-RI: the third sign is a loop on a long stroke, with neither ZA's crossbar nor RI's foot (GORILA dots RI); no divider after TE.

## Lexicon entries

- [A-SA-SA-RA-ME](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/A-SA-SA-RA-ME/index.md>) (ʾaššaram): uprightly, in righteousness (variant of yaššaram, ʾa- for ya-). Confirmed.
- [A-TA-I-\*301-WA-E](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/A-TA-I-*301-WA-E/index.md>) (ʾatainawē): I make myself a dwelling (Palaikastro dialect variant, 1cs tG-stem middle-reflexive of √NWY). Confirmed.
- [DU-PU₂-RE](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/DU-PU~E2~82~82-RE/index.md>) (dubur): sanctuary, inner sanctum (dubur). Probable.
- [U-NA](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/U-NA/index.md>) (wannā): and behold (contracted conjunction + h-n presentative). Probable.
- [A-DI-KI-TE-TE](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/A-DI-KI-TE-TE/index.md>) (ʾa-Diqqitīt): O Diktaean (f.), the feminine nisbe of Dikte. Probable.
- [I-NA](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/I-NA/index.md>) (hinna): behold! (presentative particle). Candidate.
- [I-PI-NA-MI-NA](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/I-PI-NA-MI-NA/index.md>) (ʾippina=mi=na): face, presence (of)—expanded variant of I-PI-NA-MA. Candidate.
- [JA-PA-QA](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/JA-PA-QA/index.md>) (yapqaḥ): he opens (the eyes). Candidate.
- [A-KO-A-NE](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/A-KO-A-NE/index.md>) (ha-kōhan): the priest (proposed title after PI-TE-RI). Candidate.
- [I-NA-JA-PA-QA](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/I-NA-JA-PA-QA/index.md>) (hinna yapqaḥ): Behold, he opens (his eyes)!—theophanic epiphany closure. Candidate.
- [PI-TE-RI](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/PI-TE-RI/index.md>) (piṭrī): Piṭrī, personal name, 'my release'. Candidate.
- [U-NA-RU-KA-NA-TI](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/U-NA-RU-KA-NA-TI/index.md>) (wannā lū kanasti / winnā lū kanasti): so, behold, may you gather! Candidate.
- [KA-NA-TI](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/KA-NA-TI/index.md>) (kanasti): you (f.) gathered (2fs suffix form; after lū 'may you gather'); rival K-N-S-T feminine collective 'assembly'. Speculative.

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- 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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