DA-NA-TU

personal name (f.), 'she who judges'

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Reading
dānatu
Confidence
Speculative
Root
*dyn- ‘to judge, govern’ 1, ‘judgment, legal case’…
Kind
Personal name
Language
Semitic
Rank
—

Compared forms

  • Ugariticdnty, wife of Danel (KTU 1.17 V 16; DULAT 274); dn ‘judgment’ (DULAT 273)
  • HebrewDînāh (Gen 30:21; HALOT 220); dîn ‘judgment’ (HALOT 220)

Attestations1 cited

  1. ARKH 6DA-NA-TU KU

Commentary

ARKH 6: DA-NA-TU · KU heads the tablet, TE-RI on the next line. Feminine participle dānat- + -u, √d-y-n ‘to judge’; cf. Ug. dnty, Danel’s wife (KTU 1.17 V 16), Heb. Dînāh, and DI-NA-U. Da-na-tum is a man’s seal name, son of Sîn-taʾar, servant of Rīm-Sîn (RIME 4.02.14.2009). Weak point: -t may make an abstract ‘judgment’ as well as a feminine; the Babylonian Da-na-tum is a man. Rival: dannatu ‘hardship; fortress’ (CAD D 87), a heading. One attestation. See DI-NA-RO.

On the 3D inscriptions

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

Linear A Lexicon