The Decipherment of Minoan Linear A, Volume I, Part VI

A photograph of Linear A tablet KH 5 from X / Khani is on the front-cover.

    KH 5.1-2:    a-da-ki-si-ka , a-ra-u-|da ,

    KH 5.2:       wi-sa-sa-ne                        HORD+E 2        VINb+9  2

    KH 5.3:       wi-na-du ,                           OVIS+na 1

    KH 5.3-4:    ku-pa-do                            HORD [ ] 5 A     FIC         2 JB

    Linear A a-da-ki-si-ka (KH 5.1) represents a Hurrian name, for it can be analysed as ad=a-kizzi=(i)=a, consisting of the a-stem ad=a 'woman' and the essive -a of kizzi=()i 'jewel', so that it can be translated as 'The woman (is/shines) like a jewel' or more specifically 'The woman (is/shines) like a hairpin of precious metal', if we take into account that kizzi/uu at Qana is the designation of a golden pin and that Linear A ja-ki-si-ki-nu (AK Zf 9) is written on a silver hairpin from Arkhanes, that can be analysed as ya-kizz=i=i=nnu 'as it is a jewel'.

    The second sequence a-ra-u-|da (KH 5.1-2) is a Hurrian 'one-word' name or a toponym Arau, with directive suffix -da 'to, for', or ablative suffix -dan 'from'. The name Arau (wr. A-ra-), analysis ar=av, 'I give (the boy)', is attested at Old Babylonian Sippar (Dekiere 6, 917 Beischrift).

    Linear A wi-sa-sa-ne (KH 5.2) may well consist of the name of the mountain Wiaa / Wiaia + the alternative Hurrian ethnic suffix <...