# A-DU-ZA (ʾAddu-ʿazz)

> ʾAddu-ʿazz (personal name), 'Addu is strong'; rival Hadas 'Myrtle'

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

- Reading: ʾAddu-ʿazz
- Confidence: Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once.
- Root: [\*ʕazVz-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/2769/index.md>) 'to be strong, mighty, fierce'
- Kind: Personal name
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: A (a) · DU (du) · ZA (za)

## Compared forms

- Ugaritic: *ʕz* — ʕz 'strong'; mt ʕz bʕl ʕz, 1.6 VI 17 (DULAT 193–194)
- Hebrew: ʾElʿûzay, 1 Chr 12:6
- Akkadian: Enlil-ezzu, {d}en-lil₂-ez-zu (ORACC)
- Amorite: ʿAzz-ʿammi, ʿAzzu (Gelb 1980, 568)

## Attestations

- [PK 1](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/PK1/index.md>): A-DU-ZA 1 — personal name 'Addu is strong', 1; rival hadas 'myrtle'

## Commentary

PK 1 .2 A-DU-ZA 1, the first name below the ruling, after KA-QA 2 and before TA₂-TA-RE 1, in a list of names at 1 each (GORILA I 281). Addu + ʿazz 'strong', the god first as in A-DU-NI-TA-NA and A-DU-KU-MI-NA. ZA writes (ʿa)zz. Ugaritic sets the god before ʿz: mt ʿz 'Mot was strong' (KTU 1.6 VI 17; DULAT 194); cf. Heb. ʾElʿûzay (1 Chr 12:6), Akk. Enlil-ezzu. Phoenician ʿŠTRTʿZ 'ʿAštart is (my) Strength' sets ʿz after the god, beside ʿZBʿL (Benz 1972, 175, 222; Krahmalkov 2000, 392). Rival: hadas 'myrtle' (PS *hadas-), which needs ZA for s. One witness.

## In the onomasticon

- [A-DU-ZA](<https://linear-a.ai/names/A-DU-ZA/index.md>): Personal name, Semitic

## References

- Reading: di Mino; DULAT; Benz 1972; Krahmalkov 2000
- 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
- ORACC: Oracc Steering Committee, Oracc: The Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus. University of Pennsylvania Museum; CC BY-SA 3.0 unless otherwise stated
- Krahmalkov: Krahmalkov, Charles R. (2000), A Phoenician-Punic Dictionary. Peeters (Leuven)
- AS 21: Gelb, Ignace J. (1980), Computer-aided Analysis of Amorite. Assyriological Studies 21,The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago
- Benz, Frank L. (1972), Personal Names in the Phoenician and Punic Inscriptions. Studia Pohl 8,Biblical Institute Press
- 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
- GORILA I: Godart, Louis; Olivier, Jean-Pierre (1976), Recueil des inscriptions en linéaire A, volume 1: Tablettes éditées avant 1970 (GORILA I). École française d'Athènes (Études crétoises XXI, 1); Librairie orientaliste Paul Geuthner, Paris

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