I-NA-TA-I

my Anat—theonym plus 1cs -ī; proposed "She Who Answers" (√ʿ-n-y)

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Reading
ʿInatī
Confidence
Candidate
Root
*ʕanat- ‘Anat (warrior goddess)’
Kind
Divine
Language
Semitic
Rank
Amorite-linked appendix

Compared forms

  • Ugariticʿanatuʿnt /ʿanatu/ "Anat"; syllabic ᵈa-na-tu₄ = /ʿanatu/; btlt ʿnt "the young woman Anat"
  • HebrewʿAnāt (עֲנָת) in Shamgar ben Anath (Judg 3:31); Beth-Anath (Josh 19:38); Anathoth (Jer 1:1)
  • AkkadianAntuAntu "Anu’s consort" (CAD A2, 148)
  • Egyptianꜥntjtꜥntjt "Anat" (NK warrior goddess, adopted from Canaan)
  • Amorite (Mari)Ḫanat (cult goddess at Mari, early 2nd millennium, with initial ḫ- instead of ʿ-)

Attestations1 cited

  1. IO Za 63DTA-NA-I-*301-U-TI-NU I-NA-TA-I-ZU-DI-SI-KA JA-SA-SA-RA-MEmy Anat—She Who Answers

Commentary

IO Za 6, position 2. The vessel is chipped, but the complete group I-NA-TA-I-ZU-DI-SI-KA has no internal lacuna. Segmented I-NA-TA-I + ZU-DI + SI-KA, ‘my Anat, Breast-Who-Gives-Drink.’ Initial I carries the laryngeal ʿ, not a separate particle: Ugaritic has three vowel-conditioned aleph signs (Huehnergard 2012, 21), and syllabic Ugaritic writes ᵈa-na-tu₄ for /ʿanatu/ and ša-i for /šāʿi/ (Huehnergard 2008, 18 n. 78, 208, 249). Final I is the 1cs suffix -ī. IO Za 8 ]A-NA-TI-*301-WA-JA[ is broken at both edges. See TA-NA-I-*301-U-TI-NU, DA-RU-NE-TE, KA-KU-NE-TE.

On the 3D inscriptions

Not written on any of the 82 inscriptions modelled so far (a cited inscription is modelled, but its transcription has the word broken or spelled differently).

Linear A Lexicon