# DA-KU-NA (Daguna)

> personal name on Dagan, Daguna

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

- Reading: Daguna
- Confidence: Probable. Fits the word’s contexts and has a close external comparison, without an independent control.
- Root: [\*dagān-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/2994/index.md>) 'Dagon (grain deity; Philistine/Canaanite god)'
- Kind: Personal name
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: DA (da) · KU (ku) · NA (na)
- Rank: #34 of the top 100

## Compared forms

- Akkadian: Daguna, Dagana, the Babylonian forms of the god's name (HALOT 213)
- Ugaritic: dgn (II) DN (DULAT 265)
- Hebrew: *dāgôn* — dāgôn 'Dagon, god of the Philistines' (HALOT 213)
- Amorite: Dagān DN (Gelb AS 21, 17)

## Attestations

- [HT 103](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT103/index.md>): DA-KU-NA 1 — personal name on Dagan

## Commentary

HT 103: DA-KU-NA 1, after *188 13 and before DA-KU-SE-NE 1, in a counted list under U-TA₂ · NI 40. DA-KU-NA writes Da-gu-na, Linear A marking no voicing. Daguna is an Old Akkadian personal name in lists (JCS 35, 211, 2; SANTAG 7, 062), and Babylonian Daguna, beside Dagana, is the god Dagan, frequent in personal names (HALOT 213). Gordon reads da-gu-na 'Dagon' at Haghia Triada (Gordon 1966, 24). On a counted list the bearer is a person or recipient, the name formed on Dagan. One attestation. See GRA.

## In the onomasticon

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

## References

- Reading: Gordon 1966; HALOT
- Gordon, Cyrus H. (1966), Evidence for the Minoan Language. Ventnor Publishers,68
- AS 21: Gelb, Ignace J. (1980), Computer-aided Analysis of Amorite. Assyriological Studies 21,The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago
- HALOT: Koehler, Ludwig; Baumgartner, Walter; Stamm, Johann Jakob; Richardson, M. E. J. (trans. and ed.) (1994), The Hebrew and Aramaic Lexicon of the Old Testament, vols. I–IV. E. J. Brill, Leiden · New York · Köln
- 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

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