- Reading
- ʾamita
- Confidence
- Probable
- Root
- *ʾam(a)t- ‘maid, girl, handmaid’
- Kind
- Personnel
- Language
- Semitic
- Rank
- —
Compared forms
- Akkadianamtuamtu ‘slave woman, handmaid’
- Hebrewאָמָהʾāmāhאָמָה (ʾāmāh) ‘handmaid’
- Arabicأَمَةʾamatأَمَة (ʾamat) ‘slave woman’
- Ugariticamtamt ‘handmaid’
Attestations1 cited
- ZA 10bA-MI-TA 3
Commentary
ZA 10b: A-MI-TA 3 in a quantified list of names. Ug. àmt /ʾamatu/ ‘woman slave, handmaid’ (Huehnergard 2012, 41), as in amt aṯrt ‘handmaid of Asherah’ (Gordon 1966b, 91); Akk. amtu, Heb. ʾāmāh. Mari names the same formation: ʾAmat-ʿAštar-an and ʾAmat-Labwa, ‘handmaid of Ashtart’ and ‘of the Lioness’ (Gelb 1980, nos. 782–783).
On the 3D inscriptions
Not written on any of the 82 inscriptions modelled so far.