I-NA-TA-I-ZU-DI-SI-KA

my Anat, Breast-Who-Gives-Drink—theonym plus compound divine epithet

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Reading
ʿInatī ṯudī-šiqā
Confidence
Speculative
Root
*ṯa/ud- ‘(woman’s) breast’ + *šVḳ- ‘drink’ 1, ‘give a drink, irrigate’ 2
Kind
Divine
Language
Semitic
Rank
—

Compared forms

  • Ugaritic𐎘𐎄ṯdṯd "breast" (KTU 1.23: b-ṯd aṯrt ‘at the breast of Athirat’; yiṯdyn ‘they suckle’)
  • Hebrewšādšād "breast" (KB 1316); hišqā (הִשְׁקָה) "to give drink" (√š-q-y, HALOT 1640)
  • Arabicṯadyṯady "breast" (BK 2 220); saqā "to water, give drink" (BK 1 1076)
  • Akkadianšaqûšaqû "to give to drink, to irrigate" (CAD Š2 20)

Attestations1 cited

  1. IO Za 63DTA-NA-I-*301-U-TI-NU I-NA-TA-I-ZU-DI-SI-KA JA-SA-SA-RA-ME

Commentary

IO Za 6, complete and undivided, between TA-NA-I-*301-U-TI-NU and JA-SA-SA-RA-ME: I-NA-TA-I + ZU-DI + SI-KA. Ugaritic btlt ʿnt ‘the young woman Anat’ (KTU 1.3 III 11; Huehnergard 2012, 86) and Middle Babylonian Ištar-ṣēri give deity-plus-epithet controls. ZU-DI is ṯudī ‘breast’, Ug. ṯd ‘breast, bosom’ (DULAT 886); SI-KA is šiqā ‘she who gives drink’. Ugaritic gives Anat the title ṯd lʾimm ‘the breast of the people’ (KTU 1.13:19), and pairs mṣṣ ṯd btlt ‘he sucks the breasts of the Virgin’ with ḥlb aṯrt (KTU 1.15 II 27; DULAT 886): the same divine nursing context. One attestation. See ZU-DI.

On the 3D inscriptions1 inscription

IO Za 6Mount Iouktasi-na-ta-i-zu-di-si-ka
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