DU-DA-MA

Beloved (personal name, √d-w-d + -ma); rival the Aegean name of the Keftiu board and Linear B di-du-me

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Reading
Dūdāma
Confidence
Candidate
Root
*dawid- ‘father’s brother, uncle’
Kind
Personal name
Language
Semitic
Rank
—

Compared forms

  • Hebrewdûdāʾîmdûdāʾîm ‘mandrakes, love-apples’ (Gen 30:14; Song 7:14), the u-ā form of √d-w-d
  • AmoriteDAWD-U*MA, DA-DU-MA (Gelb 1980, no. 1433); DAWD-A (no. 1413)
  • Egyptian{d-j}-d-ȝ-d-ȝ-m{a}, an ‘Aegean’ beneficiary of a wine account, BM EA 5647 v. I 3a (Dautais & Gabolde 2025, 14–15)
  • Linear Bdi-du-me (KN L 588), di-du-mo (KN X 5751, MY Oe 129) (Dautais & Gabolde 2025, Table 1)

Attestations1 cited

  1. HT 6bDU-DA-MA 66

Commentary

HT 6b .4 DU-DA-MA 66, the largest entry in a list of names, on a face written over an erasure; DU-DA-MA itself shows no undertext (GORILA I 13). dū-dā-ma, the vowels of Heb. dûdāʾîm ‘love-apples’, √d-w-d ‘beloved’, + -ma as in the Amorite name DA-DU-MA, Dawdu-ma (Gelb 1980, no. 1433). The same name has the consonants d-d-m in three scripts: Egyptian d-ȝ-d-ȝ-m of the Keftiu writing board and Linear B di-du-me, di-du-mo (Dautais & Gabolde 2025, 14–15). One attestation. See TA-DI.

On the 3D inscriptions

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

Linear A Lexicon