# DA-DU-MA-TA (dadmatu)

> settlement(s), district (heading of a grain list); rival 'beloved land'

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

- Reading: dadmatu
- Confidence: Candidate. A comparison worth testing; the evidence is thin or the word is rare.
- Root: [\*daym(-ūm)- ~ \*damdam- ~ \*ʾadam(-at)-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/1845/index.md>) 'all (inhabited, arable) land, earth, area'
- Kind: Administrative
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: DA (da) · DU (du) · MA (ma) · TA (ta)

## Compared forms

- Akkadian: dadmū pl. tant. 'the inhabited world (settlements and inhabitants)' (CAD D 18)
- Amorite: dadmum, fem. dadmītum (Gelb 1980, 17); PN Da-ad-mi-tum (Gelb 1980, no. 1394)
- Phoenician: *Punic ʔdmt* — Punic ʔdmt 'land, country'

## Attestations

- [HT 95a](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT95a/index.md>): DA-DU-MA-TA GRA — settlement(s), district (heading); rival 'beloved land'

## Commentary

HT 95a .1 DA-DU-MA-TA · GRA, heading the grain list DA-ME 10, MI-NU-TE 10, SA-RU 20, KU-NI-SU 10, DI-DE-RU 10, QE-RA₂-U 7; HT 95b gives the same list under A-DU ·. A band of lost surface between MA and TA is wider than the other gaps but holds no sign position. dadmatu 'settlement(s)', feminine of *damdam- 'inhabited land': Akkadian dadmū 'the inhabited world (settlements and inhabitants)' (CAD D 18), Amorite dadmum and fem. dadmītum (Gelb 1980, 17), the Mari name Da-ad-mi-tum (Gelb 1980, no. 1394), Old Syrian dadm 'totality; country' (GlOS 1, 141); cf. Punic ʾdmt 'land' (KAI 145.3; DNWSI 14–15). Woudhuizen (2016, 226–227) reads the same word but takes it as 'goddesses of the dwellings'. The U of DU echoes no vowel of the word. Rivals: dādu-mātu 'beloved land' (√d-w-d + Akk. mātu), though both languages put the head noun first (māt dādi); Hadad-mattān 'gift of Hadad', parallel to A-DU on side b, with Ha- lost and final -n unwritten. One attestation.

## References

- Reading: di Mino; CAD D; Gelb 1980; GlOS 1; DNWSI; Woudhuizen 2016
- KAI: Donner, Herbert; Röllig, Wolfgang (2002), Kanaanäische und aramäische Inschriften. Band 1. Harrassowitz
- AS 21: Gelb, Ignace J. (1980), Computer-aided Analysis of Amorite. Assyriological Studies 21,The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago
- CAD D: Oriental Institute (A. Leo Oppenheim, ed.) (1959), The Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, vol. D. 
- Woudhuizen, Fred C. (2016), Documents in Minoan, Luwian, Semitic, and Pelasgian. Dutch Archaeological and Historical Society, Amsterdam; Publications of the Henri Frankfort Foundation 14
- 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
- DNWSI: Hoftijzer, J.; Jongeling, K.; with appendices by R. C. Steiner, A. Mosak Moshavi and B. Porten (1995), Dictionary of the North-West Semitic Inscriptions. E. J. Brill, Leiden/New York/Köln (Handbuch der Orientalistik I/21), 2 parts

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