DA-RU-NE-TE

Anat is everlasting (theophoric personal name); rivals Dūr-ʿAnat 'Wall of Anat', and Egyptian Neith as the second element

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Reading
Dāru-ʿAnēt
Confidence
Speculative
Root
*dawr- ‘clan, generation, group of relatives’ 1… + *ʕanat- ‘Anat (warrior goddess)’
Kind
Personal name
Language
Semitic
Rank
Amorite-linked appendix

Compared forms

  • Amoritedārudāru ‘generation; lasting’ (40); Šumī-dāru ‘my name is lasting’ (Buck 2018, 349); ʿAnat second in ʿAmmī-ʿAnat, Mut-ʿAnat, ʿAbd-ʿAnat, written ḪA-NA-AT (Gelb 1980, nos. 2132, 4857, 1844); Tuttul ʿabdu-ʿanata (Buck 2018, 320)
  • Akkadiandārûdārû ‘everlasting’ (CAD D 115); dūru ‘wall, fortress’ (CAD D 196)
  • Akkadian (Ugarit)Šum-Anati, Abdi-Anati (Kinlaw 1967, 111, 7)
  • Ugaritic𐎓𐎐𐎚ʿntʿnt ‘Anat’ (DULAT 167); dr ‘circle, assembly; generation’ (DULAT 277)
  • Hebrewדּוֹרdôrdôr (דּוֹר) ‘generation’ (HALOT 217)
  • Egyptiann.tn.t ‘Neith’ as the second element of personal names: sꜣ-n.t, wsr-n.t, rdj-n.t, ḥtp-n.t (PNM v6)

Attestations1 cited

  1. HT 98bDA-RU-NE-TE ¹⁄₁₀Anat is everlasting (personal name); rivals Dūr-ʿAnat 'Wall of Anat', and Neith as the second element

Commentary

HT 98b .2 DA-RU-NE-TE 1/10, after ]VIN ¾ (GORILA I 161); face a lists TA-NA-TI ¾. DA-RU dāru ‘lasting’ (PS *dawr-), as DA-RU-*329 Dārum and Amorite Šumī-dāru ‘my name is lasting’ (Buck 2018, 349); -NE-TE ʿAnat (PS *ʕanat-), as Šum-Anati and Abdi-Anati at Ugarit (Kinlaw 1967, 111, 7). Anat is NA-TA in I-NA-TA-I and NA-TI on face a: the lost ʿa- and the e of -NE-TE are unexplained. Rivals: Dūr-ʿAnat ‘Wall of Anat’, as Ili-dūri ‘my god is my wall’ (de Boer 2014, 351) and the town Dūr-Addu (MTT I/1, s.v. Dūr-Addu); Egyptian Neith (n.t), as sꜣ-n.t ‘son of Neith’, wsr-n.t ‘Neith is powerful’ (Ilin-Tomich 2025, s.v. n.t). One attestation.

On the 3D inscriptions

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

Linear A Lexicon