# A-TI-KA (ʿAtīqa)

> personal name, 'enduring'; compare Linear B a-ti-ka

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

- Reading: ʿAtīqa
- Confidence: Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once.
- Root: [\*ʕatVq-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/2658/index.md>) 'old, ancient, noble' 1, 'to go past, cross' 2
- Kind: Personal name
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: A (a) · TI (ti) · KA (ka)

## Compared forms

- Eblaite: *a-ti-gu ʿatīq* — a-ti-gu ʿatīq 'old', AL₆.GÍD = a-ti-gu-um (GlOS 1, 93); a-ti-ga, a name (EbDA, ARET 20 0014)

## Attestations

- [ZA Wc 2](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/ZAWc2/index.md>): A-TI-KA A-DU-KO-\[MI\]

## Commentary

ZA Wc 2, a Zakros roundel: .1 A-TI-KA-A, .2 DỤ-KO-⟦MI⟧, the signs of .1 evenly spaced; GORILA divides A-TI-KA · A-DU-KO-⟦MI⟧ (GORILA II 98). Perna and Anastasiadou, after autopsy, read the last sign as the numeral 2, matching the two seal impressions on the rim (CMS II,7 no. 25; Anastasiadou 2026, 37–39). Ugaritic ʿtq 'durable', syllabic at-qá (DULAT 189); Safaitic personal name ʿtq (Harding 1971, 405). Linear B a-ti-ka is a man at Knossos (KN V 831.4; DMic I 119). One attestation. See *306-TI-KA-A-RE.

## Same root

- [\*306-TI-KA-A-RE](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/*306-TI-KA-A-RE/index.md>) (ʿatīq+are)

## In the onomasticon

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

## References

- Reading: di Mino; DULAT; Harding 1971; DMic I 119; CMS II,7; Anastasiadou 2026, 37–39, in Salgarella & Petrakis (eds.) 2026; GlOS 1; EbDA
- DMic I: Aura Jorro, Francisco, Diccionario Micénico, vol. I (CSIC 1985). 
- Harding, G. Lankester (1971), An Index and Concordance of Pre-Islamic Arabian Names and Inscriptions. Near and Middle East Series 8,University of Toronto Press
- EbDA: Ebla Digital Archives (CNR), Ebla Digital Archives (EbDA): ARET, ARES and MEE text editions. Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche
- 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 II: Godart, Louis; Olivier, Jean-Pierre (1979), Recueil des inscriptions en linéaire A, volume 2: Nodules, scellés et rondelles édités avant 1970 (GORILA II). École française d'Athènes (Études crétoises XXI, 2); Librairie orientaliste Paul Geuthner, Paris
- GlOS 1: Sanmartín, Joaquín (2019), A Glossary of Old Syrian, Volume 1: ʔ – ḳ. Languages of the Ancient Near East 8/1,Eisenbrauns (Pennsylvania State University Press), University Park
- Anastasiadou, Maria (2026), Names on roundels? The “special” case of Neo-Palatial roundels with incised numerals. In E. Salgarella & V. Petrakis (eds.), The Wor(l)ds of Linear A, AURA Supplement 15, Department of History and Archaeology, NKUA, Athens, pp. 35–42

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