# A-DI-KI-TE-TE (ʾa-Diqqitīt)

> O Diktaean (f.), the feminine nisbe of Dikte

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

- Reading: ʾa-Diqqitīt
- Confidence: Probable. Fits the word’s contexts and has a close external comparison, without an independent control.
- Root: [\*diḳ(ḳ)-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/1654/index.md>) 'be small' 1, 'be thin, fine' 2
- Kind: Divine
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: A (a) · DI (di) · KI (ki) · TE (te) · TE (te)

## Compared forms

- Ugaritic: 𐎄𐎖𐎚 *dqt* — dqt 'female head of small cattle for sacrifice', a ewe or she-goat (Gordon UT §19.695, cited by Astour 1966, 283 n. 74); DN dqt, KTU 1.102:8 (Astour 1966, 283–84; DULAT 276)
- Hebrew: שְׂעִירָה *cf. śəʿîrāh* — cf. śəʿîrāh (שְׂעִירָה) 'she-goat' and śəʿîrîm (שְׂעִירִים) 'goat-demons' (Lev 17:7, 2 Chr 11:15)

## Attestations

- [PK Za 11](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/PKZa11/index.md>): A-TA-I-\*301-WA-E A-DI-KI-TE-TE-\[?\] — O Diktaean of the Sanctuary
- [PK Za 12](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/PKZa12/index.md>): A-TA-I-\*301-WA-JA A-DI-KI-TE-\[ — [the Diktaean …]

## Commentary

PK Za 11, A-DI-KI-TE-TE-[DU-PU₂]-RE: the Palaikastro form of JA-DI-KI-TU (Diktu, Dikte), whose cognates it shares. TE-TE is the feminine nisbe -īt, ʾa-Diqqitīt 'the Diktaean', E for i: JA-DI-KI-TU ~ JA-DI-KI-TE-TE as *312-TA ~ *312-TE-TE (Davis 2026, 45), the base T kept as in SU-KI-RI-TE-I-JA beside SU-KI-RI-TA; Heb. ʾašdôdît, yĕhûdît (Neh 13:24); LB di-ka-ta-jo Diktaios (KN Fp 1). Every TE-TE form is one sign group with dubur (PK Za 8, PK Za 11, PK Za 15), Diqqitīt dubur 'the Diktaean of the sanctuary'. PK Za 12 a: A-DI-KI-TẸ-[TE], TE damaged, no divider, the surface after it lost (GORILA IV 36–38). Rival: Davis parses A- as a prepositional prefix, 'to, for the Diktaian' (Davis 2026, in Salgarella and Petrakis eds., The Wor(l)ds of Linear A, 43–60). Weak point: E writes i twice, and no held Semitic form of the name carries the nisbe.

## Same root

- [JA-DI-KI-TU](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/JA-DI-KI-TU/index.md>) (yā Diqqitu)
- [DA-KI-TI](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/DA-KI-TI/index.md>) (daqqati)

## In the onomasticon

- [A-DI-KI-TE-TE](<https://linear-a.ai/names/A-DI-KI-TE-TE/index.md>): God or goddess, Semitic

## References

- Reading: di Mino
- KTU: Dietrich, Manfried; Loretz, Oswald; Sanmartín, Joaquín (2013), Die keilalphabetischen Texte aus Ugarit, Ras Ibn Hani und anderen Orten / The Cuneiform Alphabetic Texts from Ugarit, Ras Ibn Hani and Other Places (KTU³). Ugarit-Verlag, Münster (Alter Orient und Altes Testament 360/1); ISBN 978-3-86835-014-2
- Astour, Michael C. (1966), Some New Divine Names from Ugarit. Journal of the American Oriental Society,86(3),277–284
- 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
- Davis, Brent (2026), Recent Linguistics-Based Advances in the Study of Linear A. In E. Salgarella & V. Petrakis (eds.), The Wor(l)ds of Linear A, AURA Supplement 15, pp. 43–60
- GORILA IV: Godart, Louis; Olivier, Jean-Pierre (1982), Recueil des inscriptions en linéaire A, volume 4: Autres documents (GORILA IV). École française d'Athènes (Études crétoises XXI, 4); Librairie orientaliste Paul Geuthner, Paris

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