# SY Za 3

A Linear A document: fragmentary circular serpentine libation table from Syme.

- Site: Syme
- Object: Fragmentary circular serpentine libation table
- Period: MM IIIB terminus post quem
- Findspot: Sanctuary of Hermes and Aphrodite at Kato Syme
- Edition: [GORILA V](<https://linear-a.ai/bibliography/?w=src_377>)
- In 3D: [SY Za 3](<https://linear-a.ai/inscriptions/tpl-sy-za-3/index.md>)

## Text

1. A-TA-I-\*301-WA-\[ \]-KA-NA-\[ [SI-RU-TE](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/SI-RU-TE/index.md>)

## Translation

- Tier: Probable
- Status: complete

I make myself a dwelling […]-KA-NA-[…] sacred song.

## Word by word

| Word | Reading | Gloss | Tier |
|---|---|---|---|
| A-TA-I-\*301-WA-\[ | ʾata-inawaya | I make myself a dwelling | Confirmed |
| \]-KA-NA-\[ |  | unread |  |
| [SI-RU-TE](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/SI-RU-TE/index.md>) | šīrūt | sacred song | Probable |

## Commentary

Context: Syme libation formula, fragmentary. Thomas 2020, 20 distinguishes only A-ṬẠ-Ị-*3̣0̣1-WA-[…]-KA-NA-[…] SI-RU-TE, with substantial text lost between the fragments (GORILA V 66–67, before the joins: ca. 20 signs). KA-NA stands in formula position 4, where the other sites have U-NA-KA-NA-SI.

## Epigraphic note

Fragmentary libation table completed by two later-joining fragments (Muhly & Olivier 2008). Transcribed after Thomas 2020, 20, who distinguishes only A-ṬẠ-Ị-*3̣0̣1-WA-[…]-KA-NA-[…] SI-RU-TE. GORILA V 66–67, before the joins, prints A-TẠ-Ị-*301̣-WA[ with ca. 20 signs lost before ]SI-RU-TE. Younger reads the middle stretch ]•-•-•SE-KA-NA-SI[•]TE[ with SE, SI and TE doubtful, and Hogan (quoted by Thomas 2020, 20) reads ∙ ∙ ∙ -ṢẸ-KA-NA-ṢI-[∙] ṬẸ-[. No reading prints a divider in the stretch, so SE-KA-NA-SI is an editor's segment, not a word of the text. KA-NA stands in formula position 4, where the other sites have U-NA-KA-NA-SI. The JA of A-TA-I-*301-WA-JA is restored.

## 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.
- [SI-RU-TE](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/SI-RU-TE/index.md>) (šīrūt): sacred song, hymnody (abstract in -ūt of √š-y-r "sing"). Probable.

## References

- Thomas, Rose (2020), Some Reflections on Morphology in the Language of the Linear A Libation Formula. Kadmos,59,1–23
- GORILA V: Godart, Louis; Olivier, Jean-Pierre (1985), Recueil des inscriptions en linéaire A, volume 5: Addenda, corrigenda, concordances, index et planches des signes (GORILA V). École française d'Athènes (Études crétoises XXI, 5); Librairie orientaliste Paul Geuthner, Paris
- Muhly, Polymnia; Olivier, Jean-Pierre (2008), Linear A Inscriptions from the Syme Sanctuary, Crete. Archaiologike Ephemeris,147,Archaeological Society at Athens,197–223

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