# I-NA-TA-I-ZU-DI-SI-KA (ʿInatī ṯudī-šiqā)

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

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

- Reading: ʿInatī ṯudī-šiqā
- Confidence: Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once.
- Root: [\*ṯa/ud-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/2036/index.md>) '(woman's) breast' + [\*šVḳ-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/1389/index.md>) 'drink' 1, 'give a drink, irrigate' 2
- Kind: Divine
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: I (i) · NA (na) · TA (ta) · I (i) · ZU (zu) · DI (di) · SI (si) · KA (ka)

## Compared forms

- Ugaritic: 𐎘𐎄 *ṯd* — ṯd "breast" (KTU 1.23: b-ṯd aṯrt 'at the breast of Athirat'; yiṯdyn 'they suckle')
- Hebrew: *šād* — šād "breast" (KB 1316); hišqā (הִשְׁקָה) "to give drink" (√š-q-y, HALOT 1640)
- Arabic: *ṯady* — ṯady "breast" (BK 2 220); saqā "to water, give drink" (BK 1 1076)
- Akkadian: *šaqû* — šaqû "to give to drink, to irrigate" (CAD Š2 20)

## Attestations

- [IO Za 6](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/IOZa6/index.md>): TA-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.

## Same root

- [ZU-DI](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/ZU-DI/index.md>) (ṯudī)
- [ZU-DU](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/ZU-DU/index.md>) (ṯudu)
- [SI-KA (IOZa6)](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/SI-KA~20(IOZa6)/index.md>) (šiqā)
- [A-DA-KI-SI-KA](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/A-DA-KI-SI-KA/index.md>) (Ḫadki-šiqā)
- [TE-SU-DE-SE-KE-I](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/TE-SU-DE-SE-KE-I/index.md>) (tesʾad šeqī)

## In the onomasticon

- [I-NA-TA-I-ZU-DI-SI-KA](<https://linear-a.ai/names/I-NA-TA-I-ZU-DI-SI-KA/index.md>): God or goddess, Semitic

## References

- Reading: di Mino
- KTU: Dietrich, Manfried; Loretz, Oswald; Sanmartín, Joaquín (2013), Die keilalphabetischen Texte aus Ugarit, Ras Ibn Hani und anderen Orten / The Cuneiform Alphabetic Texts from Ugarit, Ras Ibn Hani and Other Places (KTU³). Ugarit-Verlag, Münster (Alter Orient und Altes Testament 360/1); ISBN 978-3-86835-014-2
- Huehnergard, John (2012), An Introduction to Ugaritic. Hendrickson
- 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
- BK 1: Biberstein Kazimirski, A. de (1860), Dictionnaire arabe-français, tome premier (ا–ص). Maisonneuve et Cie, Paris
- BK 2: Biberstein Kazimirski, A. de (1860), Dictionnaire arabe-français, tome second. Maisonneuve et Cie, Paris
- CAD Š/2: Oriental Institute (Erica Reiner, ed.) (1992), The Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, vol. 17, Š, part 2. The Oriental Institute, Chicago; J. J. Augustin, Glückstadt

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