# PK Za 12

A Linear A document: stone vessel from Palaikastro.

- Site: Palaikastro
- Object: Stone vessel
- Edition: [GORILA IV](<https://linear-a.ai/bibliography/?w=src_701>)

## Text

1. [A-TA-I-\*301-WA-JA](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/A-TA-I-*301-WA-JA/index.md>) A-DI-KI-TE-\[
2. \]SI-\[
3. \]RA-ME\[ \]A-\[…\]-NE U-NA-RU-KA-\[?\]-JA-SI A-PA-DU-PA-\[…\] \]JA-\[…\] [JA-PA-QA](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/JA-PA-QA/index.md>)

## Translation

- Tier: Speculative
- Status: complete

I make myself a dwelling—[the Diktaean … sacred song? … in righteousness? …]—and behold, may [there be] my gathering … [he opens (his eyes)?].

## Word by word

| Word | Reading | Gloss | Tier |
|---|---|---|---|
| [A-TA-I-\*301-WA-JA](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/A-TA-I-*301-WA-JA/index.md>) | ʾata-inawaya | I make myself a dwelling | Confirmed |
| A-DI-KI-TE-\[ | ʾa-Diqqitīt… | [the Diktaean …] | Candidate |
| \]SI-\[ | \[šīrūte\] | [sacred song?] | Speculative |
| \]RA-ME\[ | \[yaššara\]me | [in righteousness?] | Speculative |
| \]A-\[…\]-NE |  | [untranslated fragment] | Speculative |
| U-NA-RU-KA-\[?\]-JA-SI | wannā lū kanāsī | And behold, may [there be] my gathering! | Candidate |
| A-PA-DU-PA-\[…\] | ʿabdu… | [damaged sequence, possibly beginning ‘servant’] | Speculative |
| \]JA-\[…\] |  | [untranslated fragment] |  |
| [JA-PA-QA](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/JA-PA-QA/index.md>) | yapqaḥ | [he opens (his eyes)?] | Candidate |

## Commentary

Fragmentary libation table. Sides b–d contain substantial losses; restorations are formula-guided and remain bracketed. SI and RA-ME belong to separate damaged groups, plausibly SI-RU-[TE] and [A-SA-SA]-RA-ME. The diplomatic U-NA-RU-KA-[?]-JA-SI is normalized as U-NA-RU-KA-[NA]-(JA)-SI: the paradigm predicts KA-NA-SI, while JA is retained as a probable scribal intrusion. The damaged coda cannot securely yield ‘the servant who is appointed’; only final JA-PA-QA is complete enough for a lexical candidate.

## Epigraphic note

Round serpentine libation table (HM 942), probably from Petsophas; heavily damaged across sides b–d. Side d as Younger reads it: A-PA-DU-PA-[3?]JA[2?]JA-, the last JA at the edge, PA below it (d2), QA round the corner on side a (a2); no divider is visible before the final JA-PA-QA. GORILA IV 35–38. Diplomatic sequence by side: a A-TA-I-*301-WA-JA · A-DI-KI-TE-[; b ]SI-[…]RA-ME[; c ]A-[…]-NE · U-NA-RU-KA-[?]-JA-SI ·; d–a A-PA-DU-PA-[…]-JA-[…]-JA-PA-QA. Traces after KA are compatible with NA (GORILA IV 38), and equally with NI (Soldani 2012, 221–22 n. 129). JA is legible. SI and RA-ME are separate fragments, not one word.

## Lexicon entries

- [A-TA-I-\*301-WA-JA](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/A-TA-I-*301-WA-JA/index.md>) (ʾatainawaya): I make myself a dwelling (1cs tG-stem middle-reflexive denominative of √NWY). Confirmed.
- [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.
- [JA-PA-QA](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/JA-PA-QA/index.md>) (yapqaḥ): he opens (the eyes). Candidate.
- [U-NA-RU-KA-NA-SI](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/U-NA-RU-KA-NA-SI/index.md>) (wannā lū kanāsī): and behold, may my gathering [take place] (proposed precative lū). Candidate.

## References

- Huehnergard, John (2012), An Introduction to Ugaritic. Hendrickson
- Soldani, Francesco (2012), Alcune osservazioni sulla formula di libagione minoica. Pasiphae,6,Fabrizio Serra editore,207–227
- 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

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