*333-DI-NA-SU-KA

In the charge of Našūka ('the Bitten one')—custody formula + personal name on a sealed receipt

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Reading
bīdi Našūka
Confidence
Speculative
Root
*bV-- ‘in’ + *yad- ~ *ʾid- ‘hand’
Kind
Administrative
Language
Semitic
Rank
Amorite-linked appendix

Compared forms

  • Ugaritic𐎁𐎄bdbd ‘in the hand, charge of’ (< bi-yadi) (Huehnergard 2012, glossary); nṯk (I) ‘biter’ (DULAT 643)
  • Hebrewbĕyadbĕyad ‘in the hand of’; nāšak ‘bite’ (Num 21:6)
  • Akkadianina qāt ‘in the charge of’ (functional parallel); našāku ‘to bite’ (CAD N/2 53)

Attestations1 cited

  1. HT Wc 3010*333-DI-NA-SU-KA

Commentary

HT Wc 3010, a roundel: *333-DI-NA-SU-KA alone. With *333 = bi, bīdi ‘in the charge of’: Ug. bd ‘into the hands of, (intended) for’, from b (y)d (DULAT 211), the custody preposition of administrative receipts. Našūka ‘the Bitten one’, qatūl of √n-š-k ‘bite’, as Hebrew nāšak of the snake (Gen 49:17; HALOT 729); cf. the serpent names Naḥash (1 Sam 11:1) and Naḥshon. Pair of HT Wc 3009 *333-DI-SU-KA: the same frame, another name. -KA the diptote genitive -a of a proper name, as Ugaritic ugrt /ʾugarita/ (Huehnergard 2012, 40). Weak point: *333 = bi rests on its three words. Rival: the whole group a personal name. One attestation. See PA₃.

On the 3D inscriptions

Not written on any of the 82 inscriptions modelled so far.

Linear A Lexicon