# \*412 (ʾigān) > large open bowl or basin for liquids; wine bowl A Linear A word in the Linear A Lexicon. The reading is a proposal and carries its tier. - Reading: ʾigān - Confidence: Candidate. A comparison worth testing; the evidence is thin or the word is rare. - Root: [\*ʾigān-]() 'cup, bowl' - Kind: Vessel - Language: Semitic - Signs: \*412 (*412VAS) ## Compared forms - Akkadian: *agannu* — agannu 'a large bowl' (CAD A/1 142) - Hebrew: *ʾaggān* — ʾaggān 'large bowl'; Moses puts half the blood bāʾaggānōt 'in the basins', Exod 24:6 (HALOT 11) - Ugaritic: *ågn* — ågn 'cauldron, earthenware bowl' (DULAT 26) - Phoenician: 𐤀𐤂𐤍 *ʾgn* — ʾgn 'bowl' (Krahmalkov 31) ## Attestations - [MA 10a](): \*412+E 4 - [MA 10b](): \*412+E 3\[ - [MA 10c](): \*412+E 2 - [PH 9b](): \*412-VS-VIN 1 𐝆𐝆 ## Commentary Commodity logogram: *412+E three times on MA 10, TI+*412VAS once (MA 10b), *412-VS-VIN once (PH 9b); VIN on PH 9b marks a wine vessel. Akk. agannu 'basin', Heb. ʔaggān (Exod 24:6, Song 7:3, Isa 22:24), Arb. ʔiggānat-, syllabic a-ga-nu at Qatna and Amarna (GlOS 1, 12): a larger basin than *406VAS kās 'cup'. The complement E writes /ʔē-/: Arabic keeps the i-class vowel, Northwest Semitic lowers it to ē, ʔēgān, and the aleph is unwritten. TI+*412VAS is a subtype, TI for ṭīn- 'clay bowl'. See A-KA-NU. ## Same root - [A-KA-NU]() (ʾagānu) ## References - Reading: di Mino - Krahmalkov: Krahmalkov, Charles R. (2000), A Phoenician-Punic Dictionary. Peeters (Leuven) - 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 - CAD A/1: Oriental Institute (A. Leo Oppenheim, ed.) (1964), The Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, vol. A/1. Oriental Institute, Chicago; J. J. Augustin, Glückstadt - DULAT: del Olmo Lete, Gregorio; Sanmartín, Joaquín (2015), A Dictionary of the Ugaritic Language in the Alphabetic Tradition. Brill, Leiden/Boston (Handbook of Oriental Studies 1/112); Third Revised Edition, tr. and ed. Wilfred G.E. Watson; 2 parts - GlOS 1: Sanmartín, Joaquín (2019), A Glossary of Old Syrian, Volume 1: ʔ – ḳ. Languages of the Ancient Near East 8/1,Eisenbrauns (Pennsylvania State University Press), University Park --- Page: https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/*412/ Licence: CC BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Cite as: di Mino, Tom. 2026. Linear A Lexicon. Plasma AI. https://linear-a.ai/. Data: kaphtor, commit 50525edd.