DA-KI-TI

fine (powder), ground fine

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Reading: daqqati
Confidence: Speculative
Root: *diḳ(ḳ)- ‘be small’ 1, ‘be thin, fine’ 2
Kind: Ritual
Language: Semitic
Rank: —

Compared forms

Ugariticdaqatudqt /daqatu/ ‘small, tiny, thin’ (DULAT 276)
Eblaitedu-gu-um duqqdu-gu-um duqq ‘powder’ (GlOS 1, 143)
Hebrewdaq, f. daqqâ (דַּקָּה) ‘fine, crushed’: qəṭōret sammîm daqqâ ‘finely ground sweet incense’ (Lev 16:12); hādēq ‘very fine’, of the sanctuary incense (Exod 30:36)

Attestations1 cited

KN Zc 6 3DA-DI DA-KI-TI-PA-KU NI-JA-NUfine (powder), flask

Commentary

KN Zc 6 register .2, after QI-TI-RI ‘my incense’ and A-DI ‘until’: incense ground fine, the Hebrew qəṭōret … daqqâ (Lev 16:12), Ug. dqt ‘small, tiny, fine’ (DULAT 276). Written as one unit with PA-KU ‘flask’ (DA-KI-TI-PA-KU, closed by a divider before NI-JA-NU). QI-TI-RI is masculine, so DA-KI-TI is a noun ‘fine powder’. Rival: genitive of the divine name, ‘of Daqqatu’ (Ugaritic dqt, DN ‘the Little One’, DULAT 276), cf. JA-DI-KI-TU and A-DI-KI-TE-TE. Younger reads A-DI-DA-KI-TI-PA-KU as a muddled A-DI-KI-TE (Younger, Linear A Texts, Other Texts: Knossos). Cf. SKO Zc 2 ]DE-KI-TI[ (Skoteino cave, a painted vessel), broken on both sides.

On the 3D inscriptions

Not written on any of the 82 inscriptions modelled so far (a cited inscription is modelled, but its transcription has the word broken or spelled differently).