# \*305-WA-NA (Dawana)

> Dawana (personal name)

A Linear A word in the Linear A Lexicon. The reading is a proposal and carries its tier.

- Reading: Dawana
- Confidence: Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once.
- Kind: Personal name
- Language: Aegean, Aegean substrate
- Signs: \*305 · WA (wa) · NA (na)

## Compared forms

- Linear B: da-wa-no, a man's name at Knossos, KN As 1517.4, Ga 423 v., Mc 4454.A, Mc 4461.B (DMic I 159)

## Attestations

- [ZA 6a](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/ZA6a/index.md>): \*305-WA-NA \*171 19 — personal name, 19 of *171; Linear B da-wa-no

## Commentary

ZA 6a .1 *305-WA-NA *171 19, the first entry of face a, intact and undotted (GORILA III 157). KN Mc 4454.A writes the name the same way, da-wa-no *150 29: name, logogram, number (DMic I 159). *305 writes da, as Linear B d; the -o is the Greek nominative. *171 has no reading. One attestation.

## In the onomasticon

- [\*305-WA-NA](<https://linear-a.ai/names/*305-WA-NA/index.md>): Personal name, Aegean substrate

## References

- Reading: di Mino; DMic I
- DMic I: Aura Jorro, Francisco, Diccionario Micénico, vol. I (CSIC 1985). 
- GORILA III: Godart, Louis; Olivier, Jean-Pierre (1976), Recueil des inscriptions en linéaire A, volume 3: Tablettes, nodules et rondelles édités en 1975 et 1976 (GORILA III). École française d'Athènes (Études crétoises XXI, 3); Librairie orientaliste Paul Geuthner, Paris

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