# DA-RU-NE-TE (Dāru-ʿAnēt)

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

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

- Reading: Dāru-ʿAnēt
- Confidence: Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once.
- Root: [\*dawr-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/40/index.md>) 'clan, generation, group of relatives' 1, 'maternal aunt's children' 2, 'eternity' 3 + [\*ʕanat-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/2771/index.md>) 'Anat (warrior goddess)'
- Kind: Personal name
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: DA (da) · RU (ru) · NE (ne) · TE (te)
- Rank: Amorite-linked appendix

## Compared forms

- Amorite: *dāru* — dāru '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)
- Akkadian: *dārû* — dārû 'everlasting' (CAD D 115); dūru 'wall, fortress' (CAD D 196)
- Akkadian (Ugarit): Šum-Anati, Abdi-Anati (Kinlaw 1967, 111, 7)
- Ugaritic: 𐎓𐎐𐎚 *ʿnt* — ʿnt 'Anat' (DULAT 167); dr 'circle, assembly; generation' (DULAT 277)
- Hebrew: דּוֹר *dôr* — dôr (דּוֹר) 'generation' (HALOT 217)
- Egyptian: *n.t* — n.t 'Neith' as the second element of personal names: sꜣ-n.t, wsr-n.t, rdj-n.t, ḥtp-n.t (PNM v6)

## Attestations

- [HT 98b](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT98b/index.md>): DA-RU-NE-TE ¹⁄₁₀ — Anat 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.

## Same root

- [I-NA-TA-I](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/I-NA-TA-I/index.md>) (ʿInatī)
- [DA-RU-\*329](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/DA-RU-*329/index.md>) (Dārum)
- [KA-KU-NE-TE](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/KA-KU-NE-TE/index.md>) (Kakku-ʿAnēt)

## In the onomasticon

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

## Related forms

- KA-KU-NE-TE (ZA10b, same second element)
- DA-RU-\*329 (HT7b, same first element)
- I-NA-TA-I (ʿInatī, 'my Anat,' lexicon)
- TA-NA-TI (Tanāti, Tanit variant, lexicon)

## References

- Reading: di Mino; Gelb 1980; Buck 2018; Kinlaw 1967; de Boer 2014; MTT I/1; Ilin-Tomich 2025
- AS 21: Gelb, Ignace J. (1980), Computer-aided Analysis of Amorite. Assyriological Studies 21,The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago
- CAD D: Oriental Institute (A. Leo Oppenheim, ed.) (1959), The Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, vol. D. 
- 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
- Kinlaw, Dennis F. (1967), A Study of the Personal Names in the Akkadian Texts from Ugarit. Brandeis University, Department of Mediterranean Studies (Ph.D. dissertation)
- GORILA I: Godart, Louis; Olivier, Jean-Pierre (1976), Recueil des inscriptions en linéaire A, volume 1: Tablettes éditées avant 1970 (GORILA I). École française d'Athènes (Études crétoises XXI, 1); Librairie orientaliste Paul Geuthner, Paris
- Buck, Mary Ellen (2018), The Amorite Dynasty of Ugarit: The Historical Origins of the Bronze Age Polity of Ugarit Based upon Linguistic, Literary, and Archaeological Evidence. 
- de Boer, Rients (2014), Amorites in the Early Old Babylonian Period. 
- PNM: Ilin-Tomich, Alexander (2025), Persons and Names of the Middle Kingdom (PNM), version 6. Zenodo (Freie Universität Berlin); CC BY 4.0

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