# PS Za 2

A Linear A document: stone vessel from Psykhro.

- Site: Psykhro
- Object: Stone vessel
- Scribe: PS Scribe 1
- Edition: [GORILA IV](<https://linear-a.ai/bibliography/?w=src_701>)
- In 3D: [PS Za 2](<https://linear-a.ai/inscriptions/tpl-ps-za-2/index.md>)

## Text

1. \]-RE-I-KE
2. TA-NA-I-\*301-(TI/E) \[…\]-JA-(TI/E) [JA-SA-SA-RA-ME](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/JA-SA-SA-RA-ME/index.md>)

## Translation

- Tier: Candidate
- Status: complete

TI: ‘[…]—May you (f.) answer—[…]—in righteousness.’ E: ‘[…]—May she/you answer—[…]—in righteousness.’

## Word by word

| Word | Reading | Gloss | Tier |
|---|---|---|---|
| \]-RE-I-KE |  | [untranslated fragment] |  |
| TA-NA-I-\*301-(TI/E) | tanaʿʿīnā-tī / tanʿanē | TI: May you (f.) answer; E: May she/you answer | Candidate |
| \[…\]-JA-(TI/E) |  | [damaged; untranslated] |  |
| [JA-SA-SA-RA-ME](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/JA-SA-SA-RA-ME/index.md>) | yaššaram | in righteousness (accusative -am, √y-š-r) | Confirmed |

## Commentary

Fragmentary stone-vessel inscription from the Dictaean Cave. The initial ]-RE-I-KE and medial […]-JA-(TI/E) groups are incomplete and remain untranslated. With *301 = NA, TA-NA-I-*301-(TI/E) may be an N-stem of √ʿ-n-y 'answer,' structurally comparable with IOZa6. The sign traditionally read TI may instead be LA 38 E (Ferrara, Montecchi, and Valério 2022, 87). The TI reading permits di Mino's marked 2fs analysis; the E reading removes that marker and leaves TA- person-ambiguous. JA-SA-SA-RA-ME is read yaššaram, 'in righteousness.'

## Epigraphic note

Fragmentary ritual inscription. The first group is broken at the left edge, and the group before JA-SA-SA-RA-ME is damaged. The sign traditionally read TI in PS Za 2.2 may instead be LA 38 E (Ferrara, Montecchi, and Valério 2022, 87).

## Lexicon entries

- [JA-SA-SA-RA-ME](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/JA-SA-SA-RA-ME/index.md>) (yaššaram): in righteousness (adverbial accusative in -am of √y-š-r; also 'righteously'); rival: substantivized "the upright/proper [thing]" in an object slot. Polysemic layer: masculine divine name Yasharam (Akk. Mīšarum, Phoen. Misor). Confirmed.
- [TA-NA-I-\*301-U-TI-NU](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/TA-NA-I-*301-U-TI-NU/index.md>) (tan-ʿinā-u-tī-n(u)): may you (f.) answer us (N-stem of √ʿ-n-y in the TA-NA-[X]-U-TI-NU frame: 2fs prefix + indicative -u + subject clitic -tī + 1cp object -n). Probable.

## Images

[The document in SigLA](https://sigla.phis.me/document/PS%20Za%202/) (drawing and photographs, © École française d’Athènes).

## References

- Ferrara, Silvia; Montecchi, Barbara; Valério, Miguel (2022), The Relationship between Cretan Hieroglyphic and Linear A: A Palaeographic and Structural Approach. Pasiphae,16,Fabrizio Serra Editore,81–109

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