A-NA-NU
personal name Ḥanānu 'gracious'; rival ʿAnānu 'cloud'
- Reading
- Ḥanānu
- Confidence
- Speculative
- Root
- *ḥanan- ‘show favour, be gracious’
- Kind
- Personal name
- Language
- Semitic
- Rank
- —
Compared forms
- Amorite A-NA-NU-UM-DINGIR, read ḤANAN-UM+ʾIL (Gelb 1980, Add. 476a), and Ḥanan-a, Ḥanan-at-um, Ḥanan-im (Gelb, AS 21, nos. 475–478); Ugarit Ḫananu (Kinlaw 1967, 55); biblical PN חָנָן (Ḥānān, Neh 10:27; HALOT 335); rival: Hebrew עָנָן (ʿānān) ‘cloud’, biblical PN עָנָן (ʿĀnān, Neh 10:27; HALOT 858)
Attestations1 cited
- HT Zb 159A-NA-NU-SI-JA-SE[personal name ʿAnānu (√ʿ-n-n)
Commentary
Owner/recipient name on a painted pithos, base of A-NA-NU-SI-JA-SE (HT Zb 159). -SI-JA-SE is the vessel-label adjectival formation shared with KI-TA-NA-SI-JA-SE (PE Zb 3). Gelb 1980 reads the same spelling, A-NA-NU-UM-DINGIR, as ḤANAN-UM+ʾIL (Add. 476a), beside the Amorite Ḥanan- names (nos. 475–478); Ugarit has Ḫananu, Kinlaw’s spelling (Kinlaw 1967, 55). Cuneiform does not tell ḥ from ʿ. Rival: ʿAnānu ‘cloud’, and Neh 10:27 names ʿĀnān beside Ḥānān. See A-NA-NE.
On the 3D inscriptions
Not written on any of the 82 inscriptions modelled so far.