# DA-I-PI-TA (Ṭayyibat)

> Good (f.) (personal name)

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

- Reading: Ṭayyibat
- Confidence: Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once.
- Root: [\*ṭayb-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/2494/index.md>) 'good' 1, 'perfume' 2
- Kind: Personal name
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: DA (da) · I (i) · PI (pi) · TA (ta)

## Compared forms

- Amorite: ṬAJB-AT-UM, DA-BA-TUM, a woman (Gelb 1980 no. 1409); ṭābum, fem. ṭābatum 'good' (Gelb 1980, 35)
- Eblaite: *da-bù* — da-bù 'good' (VE 62)
- Arabic: ṭayyiba, fem. of ṭayyib 'good'

## Attestations

- [ZA 10a](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/ZA10a/index.md>): DA-I-PI-TA 1 — PN 'Good (f.)': Amorite DA-BA-TUM Ṭaybatum, a woman (Gelb 1980, no. 1409); LB da-i-pi-ta (KN Bk 799). Rival: DA-I + PI-TA
- [ZA 8](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/ZA8/index.md>): DA-I-PI-TA 2 ¹⁄₂ — personal name, 'Good (f.)', 2½

## Commentary

ZA 10a .4–5 DA-I-PI-TA 1, in a name list after A-DU-KU-MI-NA 1 (GORILA III 169); ZA 8 DA-I-PI-TA 2½, before KA-I-RO 4, by another scribe (GORILA III 165). ṭayyibat- 'good (f.)', fem. of qattil ṭayyib-: DA writes ṭ as in Amorite DA-BA-TUM Ṭaybatum (Gelb no. 1409) and Ebla da-bù 'good' (GlOS 2, 311); I writes yyi, the gemination unmarked. LB da-i-pi-ta heads a catalogue of men at Knossos (KN Bk 799), a man's name (DMic I 149): the name carried into Mycenaean Crete. Rivals: DA-I + PI-TA, DA-I dayyu 'enough' (HT 12) with PI-TA otherwise only inside PI-TA-JA; DA + I-PI-TA, I-PI-TA unattested. See OLE+TA.

## Same root

- [OLE+TA](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/OLE~2BTA/index.md>) (ṭābu)
- [TU-PA-DI-DA](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/TU-PA-DI-DA/index.md>) (ṭūb-dida)

## In the onomasticon

- [DA-I-PI-TA](<https://linear-a.ai/names/DA-I-PI-TA/index.md>): Personal name, Semitic

## References

- Reading: di Mino; Gelb 1980; GlOS 2; DMic I
- VE: Pettinato, Giovanni (1982), Testi lessicali bilingui della biblioteca L. 2769. Parte 1: Traslitterazione dei testi e ricostruzione del VE. Materiali epigrafici di Ebla 4,Istituto Universitario Orientale
- AS 21: Gelb, Ignace J. (1980), Computer-aided Analysis of Amorite. Assyriological Studies 21,The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago
- DMic I: Aura Jorro, Francisco, Diccionario Micénico, vol. I (CSIC 1985). 
- GORILA III: Godart, Louis; Olivier, Jean-Pierre (1976), Recueil des inscriptions en linéaire A, volume 3: Tablettes, nodules et rondelles édités en 1975 et 1976 (GORILA III). École française d'Athènes (Études crétoises XXI, 3); Librairie orientaliste Paul Geuthner, Paris
- GlOS 2: Sanmartín, Joaquín (2024), A Glossary of Old Syrian, Volume 2: l – z. Languages of the Ancient Near East 8/2,Eisenbrauns (Pennsylvania State University Press), University Park

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