A-RI-NI-TA

She-of-the-Lion (feminine gentilic—priestess/cult title; cf. I-ZU-RI-NI-TA She-of-the-Bull)

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Reading
ʾarīnīt
Confidence
Candidate
Root
*ʾarway- ‘wild beast’
Kind
Personal name
Language
Semitic
Rank
—

Compared forms

  • Hebrewari lion (Gen 49:9 gur aryeh Yehudah; Num 23:24; Judg 14:8)
  • Ugariticary lion (KTU 1.5 i 14, Baal cycle)
  • Aramaicarya lion (Dan 6:17ff.)

Attestations2 cited

  1. HT 25aA-RI-NI-TA 1She-of-the-Lion (priestess or cult title), 1
  2. ZA 8A-RI-NI-TA 1 ?She-of-the-Lion (priestess or cult title), 1[

Commentary

HT 25a and ZA 8, at two sites. ʾarīnīt ‘She-of-the-Lion’, the feminine gentilic -nīt on NWS ari ‘lion’, as I-ZU-RI-NI-TA i-ṯawrinīt ‘She-of-the-Bull’ takes the same -NI-TA on an animal root; bull and lion are the two central sacred animals of Minoan iconography. Both tablets enter A-RI-NI-TA with 1 in a list of personal names (HT 25a with DI-NA-U, U-RE-WI and I-KI-RA; ZA 8 with KU-TU-KO-RE and DA-I-PI-TA), so -īt here names one woman, where it also forms relational adjectives, abstracts and collectives (Fischer 2002, §§64, 116). Weak point: the lists set no title apart from a name.

On the 3D inscriptions

Not written on any of the 82 inscriptions modelled so far.

Linear A Lexicon