# PL Zf 1

A Linear A document: silver pin from Platanos.

- Site: Platanos
- Object: Silver pin
- Period: LM I
- Findspot: Immediate vicinity of Platanos Tholos A
- Edition: [GORILA IV](<https://linear-a.ai/bibliography/?w=src_701>)
- In 3D: [PL Zf 1](<https://linear-a.ai/inscriptions/tpl-pl-zf-1/index.md>)

## Text

1. \]TA [WI-TE-JA-MU](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/WI-TE-JA-MU/index.md>) [U-QE-TI](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/U-QE-TI/index.md>) JA-SA-SA-RA-\[ME?\] [TA-NU-NI-KI-NA](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/TA-NU-NI-KI-NA/index.md>) [NI-NU-NI](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/NI-NU-NI/index.md>) \[?\]-I-\[?\]

## Translation

- Tier: Speculative
- Status: complete

[…] Beloved of the Deep(?), the Burning One(?), in righteousness(?)—Chant a dirge, O offspring. […]

## Word by word

| Word | Reading | Gloss | Tier |
|---|---|---|---|
| \]TA |  | [end of a lost word] |  |
| [WI-TE-JA-MU](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/WI-TE-JA-MU/index.md>) | Widd-tiyāmu | Beloved of the Deep | Speculative |
| [U-QE-TI](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/U-QE-TI/index.md>) | wōqedt | the burning one (f.) | Speculative |
| JA-SA-SA-RA-\[ME?\] | yaššaram | in righteousness(?) | Candidate |
| [TA-NU-NI-KI-NA](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/TA-NU-NI-KI-NA/index.md>) | tannî qînâ | chant a dirge!(?) | Speculative |
| [NI-NU-NI](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/NI-NU-NI/index.md>) | nīnūn | offspring(?) | Speculative |
| \[?\]-I-\[?\] |  | [I within a damaged word] |  |

## Commentary

PL Zf 1 is a fragmentary LM I inscription on a silver pin from the immediate vicinity of Platanos Tholos A, a funerary rather than peak-sanctuary context (Monti 2022, 113). It is read sinistroverse. Initial ]TA and final [?]-I-[?] are word fragments, WI and MU in WI-TE-JA-MU are doubtful, and the ending of JA-SA-SA-RA-[ME?] is restored. The final preserved phrase is provisionally read /tannî qînâ nīnūn/, ‘Chant a dirge, O offspring.’ The lack of a divider within TA-NU-NI-KI-NA and the ambiguity between grammatically regular plural/collective -ūn and case -un keep the identifications speculative; the morphology itself is well formed. ‘Posterity’ remains a possible interpretive gloss for /nīnūn/, not the direct translation. Duhoux's structural analysis makes WI-TE-JA-MU and U-QE-TI possible onomastic X-terms, but this is a syntactic classification, not a decipherment.

## Epigraphic note

Funerary context. GORILA IV 161 normalizes ]TA · WI-TE-JA-MU-U-QE-TI · JA-SA-SA-RA-ME · TA-NU-NI-KI-NA · NI-NU-NI · [·]-I-[·], ME dotted, with no divider after MU (Younger divides WI-TE-JA-MU U-QE-TI); its note allows [·]-I-MA.

## Lexicon entries

- [NI-NU-NI](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/NI-NU-NI/index.md>) (nīnūn): offspring, descendants, posterity. Speculative.
- [TA-NU-NI-KI-NA](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/TA-NU-NI-KI-NA/index.md>) (tannî qînâ): chant a dirge! Speculative.
- [U-QE-TI](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/U-QE-TI/index.md>) (wōqedt): the burning one (f.); name or epithet. Speculative.
- [WI-TE-JA-MU](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/WI-TE-JA-MU/index.md>) (Widd-tiyāmu): Beloved of the Deep (title or name). Speculative.

## 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
- Monti, Orazio (2022), Some Observations on the Language of Linear A. Kadmos,61,107–115
- 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
- CAD N/2: Oriental Institute (Erica Reiner, ed.) (1980), The Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, vol. 11, N, part 2. The Oriental Institute, Chicago; J. J. Augustin, Glückstadt
- 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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