Tablet · Zakros
ZA 7a
- Site
- Zakros
- Object
- Tablet
- Period
- LM IB
- Scribe
- —
- Findspot
- —
- Edition
- GORILA III
Text4 lines
TranslationSpeculativeincomplete
Burnt offering 5; Earth(-offering) 4; Arṣ̂-ummī [broken]
Word by word3 words
- U-JUʿūlūburnt offeringSpeculative
- A-RA-TUʾarṣ̂atuearth (offering category)Candidate
- A-RE-TU-MIʾarṣ̂-ummīPN/epithet: 'Earth is my mother' (pre-Greek Artemis)Candidate
Commentary
Context: Votive offering allocation: burnt and earth offerings dedicated under the earth-goddess epithet. Tablet broken after A-RE-TU-MI—original text longer.
Incomplete—tablet broken after A-RE-TU-MI (damage marker). Zakros tablet with votive allocations. All three words share a chthonic/earth-offering semantic field: burnt offering (ʿūlū), earth (ʾarṣ̂atu), and the earth-goddess epithet (ʾarṣ̂-ummī = pre-Greek Artemis). The A-RA-TU / A-RE-TU-MI co-occurrence strengthens both readings—same √ʾ-r-ṣ̂ root in bare noun and compound PN on a single tablet.
Epigraphic note
A-RE-TU-MI runs from line 2 onto line 3; MI opens line 3, and the line continues into the break, so words or a number may have followed MI.