# \*306-TU (ʿAttu)

> personal name (cf. Hebrew ʿAttay)

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

- Reading: ʿAttu
- Confidence: Candidate. A comparison worth testing; the evidence is thin or the word is rare.
- Root: [\*ʕtw](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/4412/index.md>) 'to behave proudly, be insolent; to revolt from obedience'
- Kind: Personal name
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: \*306 · TU (tu)

## Compared forms

- Hebrew: ʿAttay (עַתַּי) (1 Chr 2:35); ʿĂtāyāh (עֲתָיָה) (Neh 11:4)
- Palmyrene: f. ʿty, Greek Αθθαια (HALOT 903)
- Phoenician-Punic: ʿTʾ (Benz 1972, 388)

## Attestations

- [HT 9a](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT9a/index.md>): \*306-TU 10 — personal name (cf. Hebrew ʿAttay; *306 = ʿa)
- [HT 9b](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT9b/index.md>): \*306-TU 8 — personal name (cf. Hebrew ʿAttay; *306 = ʿa)
- [HT 119](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT119/index.md>): \*306-TU 2 — personal name (cf. Hebrew ʿAttay)
- [HT 122a](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT122a/index.md>): \*306-TU 1\[ — personal name (cf. Hebrew ʿAttay; *306 = ʿa)

## Commentary

A recipient on three tablets: the HT 9a/9b wine roster (10, 8), the same roster on HT 122a (1[, with PA-DE and *324-DI-RA), and the HT 119 personnel count (2, before *327-JU 8 and KU-RO 160). *306 at the proposed value ʿa, and TU writes -tu with the geminate unwritten: ʿAttu, cf. Heb. ʿAttay (1 Chr 2:35), the short form of ʿĂtāyāh (Neh 11:4), Palm. f. ʿty, Greek Αθθαια, which writes the geminate (HALOT 903), and Pun. ʿTʾ (Benz 1972, 388). The name slot is secure. ʿĂtāyāh 'Yahweh has shown himself as surpassing', from Arb. ʿatā (Noth, apud HALOT 903), whose usual sense is 'to be insolent, unruly' (HALOT 903; Lane 1951). Weak point: *306 = ʿa is a proposed value. *306-TU-JA (HT 115b) is the same name with hypocoristic -ya. See *306-TU-JA.

## Same root

- [\*306-TU-JA](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/*306-TU-JA/index.md>) (ʿAttuya)
- [U-TA-I-SE](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/U-TA-I-SE/index.md>) (ʿUtay-se)

## In the onomasticon

- [\*306-TU](<https://linear-a.ai/names/*306-TU/index.md>): Personal name, Semitic

## References

- Reading: di Mino; HALOT; Benz 1972; Lane
- Benz, Frank L. (1972), Personal Names in the Phoenician and Punic Inscriptions. Studia Pohl 8,Biblical Institute Press
- HALOT: Koehler, Ludwig; Baumgartner, Walter; Stamm, Johann Jakob; Richardson, M. E. J. (trans. and ed.) (1994), The Hebrew and Aramaic Lexicon of the Old Testament, vols. I–IV. E. J. Brill, Leiden · New York · Köln
- Lane: Lane, Edward William (1863), An Arabic-English Lexicon. Williams and Norgate, London

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