Tablet · Zakros
ZA 4a
- Site
- Zakros
- Object
- Tablet
- Period
- LM IB
- Scribe
- ZA Scribe 1
- Findspot
- —
- Edition
- GORILA III
Text9 lines
Translationincomplete
[…] 5; JA-TO-JA[…] 3; ʿAttiru 4; Yapaʿu 1[; [?]-TU-ME-SE 18; gift for the Heroes 4; wine-stewards 13; pourings 5; must 50; jars 3. (Verso ZA4b: WINE 104.)
Word by word11 words
- ]E[damaged—line 3 fragment
- ]PI-[?]-SE[ 5damaged header or first entry, 5 units
- JA-TO-JA
- A-TI-RUʿAttirupersonal name (ʿAṯtar theophoric), 4 unitsSpeculative
- JA-PAYapaʿ(u)personal name ('he shines'), 1+ unitSpeculative
- [?]-TU-ME-SEunread, 18 units
- QE-SI-ZU-Eqīši ṯuʿēgift for the Heroes, 4 units; rival 'the noble's gift'Speculative
- *28B-NU-MA-REyīnu-mārēwine-stewards (personnel category), 13 unitsCandidate
- SI-PI-KIšipkīpourings (libation portions), 5 unitsCandidate
- E-*82ʿasī(s)must, new wine—the bulk lot, 50 unitsSpeculative
- KA-DIkaddūjars, 3 units—closes the listProbable
Commentary
Context: LM IB clay tablet (HM 1615+2 frr., found by N. Platon in 1963; GORILA III, XIII), ZA Scribe 1. Recto: damaged opening, then a three-name Semitic roster with small allocations, then a commodity block of wine forms and vessels. Verso (ZA4b) reads VIN 104—visible recto numerals sum to 106 with two damaged numerals inside the margin, framing every entry as wine-denominated. Vocabulary trio QE-SI-ZU-E / *28B-NU-MA-RE / SI-PI-KI shared with ZA15a (explicit VIN carrier).
Epigraphic note
GORILA III 149 normalizes .2 ]PI-[·]-SE[ ]5 and .4 [·]-TU-ME-SE 18: each is one word with a sign lost inside it (a middle sign in PI-[·]-SE, the first sign of [·]-TU-ME-SE, which follows JA-PA 1̣[ at the start of line 4).