DA-NE-KU-TI

He of the speckled (flock) (personal name); rival 'He of the head shepherd'

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Reading
Ḏā-naquddi
Confidence
Speculative
Root
*naḳid- 1, *naḳad- 2 ‘shepherd, sheep-breeder’ 1, ‘sheep, lamb’ 2
Kind
Personal name
Language
Semitic
Rank
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Compared forms

  • Ugariticksp d nqdm ‘silver of the head shepherds’ (KTU 4.369:8); nqd ‘head shepherd’ (DULAT 630); syll. mu-qa-dī ‘grazing rights’ (PRU 6 116; UVST NQD¹)
  • Hebrewנֹקֵדnōqēdnōqēd נֹקֵד ‘sheep-breeder’, of Mesha (2 Kgs 3:4); nāqōd נָקֹד ‘speckled’ (Gen 30:32)

Attestations1 cited

  1. HT 117a3DDA-NE-KU-TI 1He of the speckled (flock) (personal name); rival 'He of the head shepherd'

Commentary

HT 117a .8–9 DA-NE-KU-TI 1, after DA-MI-NU 1 and before KI-DA-RO 1, in the second list headed SA-TA (GORILA I 197). ḏā ‘the one of’, as in DA-MI-NU, + naquddi, genitive of naqudd- ‘speckled’, Jacob’s flock (Gen 30:32), TI writing di: ‘He of the speckled (flock)’. KU-TI answers to -qudd-, as Hebrew nəquddîm (Gen 30:39; HALOT 719); Safaitic has the name Nqd (Harding 1971, 597). DA-MI-NU beside it answers to LB da-mi-ni-jo, a shepherd at Knossos. Rivals: nāqidi ‘herdsman’ (Ebla na-gi-du-um, GlOS 2, 92), as Ugaritic nqdm ‘chief shepherds’ with the same d in ksp d … nqdm (KTU 4.369:2–8; DULAT 253), whose a-i vowels miss NE-KU; DA-NE + KU-TI, neither part attested alone.

On the 3D inscriptions1 inscription

HT 117a–bHaghia Triada…da-ne-ku-ti……
Linear A Lexicon