DA-MA-TE

the Tower; the unprefixed base of I-DA-MA-TE

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Reading
damat
Confidence
Speculative
Root
*dim- ‘tower’ 1, ‘borough’ 2
Kind
Ritual
Language
Semitic
Rank
—

Compared forms

  • Ugaritic𐎄𐎎𐎚dmtdmt (I) ‘tower’ (DULAT 272)
  • Akkadiandimtudimtu ‘tower; fortified area; district’ (CAD D 144)
  • Linear Bda-ma-te, PY En 609.1 (pa-ki-ja-ni-ja to-sa da-ma-te DA 40), read δάμαρτες ‘household estates’ or Δαμάτηρ (= Δημήτηρ) as a unit of land (DMic I 151)
  • Greekcf. Δαμάτηρ (Dor., Arc., Boeot.), Δωμάτηρ (Aeol.), dat. Δαμμάτηρ (Thess.), Δημήτηρ (Hom.) ‘Demeter’ (DELG 272–273)

Attestations1 cited

  1. KY Za 2DA-MA-TE

Commentary

KY Za 2, a stone vessel from Kythera, DA-MA-TE alone. The base of I-DA-MA-TE (AR Zf 1, 2), read ‘the tower’: Ug. dmt (I) ‘tower’, in ‘the tower of the mother of(?) the god[s(?)’ (KTU 2.31:46; DULAT 272), Akk. dimtu ‘tower; fortified area; district’ (CAD D 144–147). Rival: a personal name on the same noun, as Ugarit dmty, dmtn (GlOS 1, 147) and Ebla ti-ma-ti ‘pillar’ (Pagan 1998, row 4489). One attestation.

On the 3D inscriptions

Not written on any of the 82 inscriptions modelled so far.

Linear A Lexicon