I-PI-NA-MI-NA

face, presence (of)—expanded variant of I-PI-NA-MA

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Reading
ʾippina=mi=na
Confidence
Candidate
Root
*pan- ‘face’
Kind
Ritual
Language
Semitic
Rank
—

Compared forms

  • Hebrewפָּנִיםpānīmpānīm (פָּנִים) ‘face, presence’ (Gen 32:31, Exod 33:14–15, Lev 1:3–4, Ps 19:15, Mal 1:8); lipnê (לִפְנֵי) ‘before the face of’ = standard cult-approach formula; √p-n-y ‘to turn, face’
  • Ugaritic𐎔𐎐𐎎pnmpnm ‘face, presence’ (DULAT 664); pn ilm ‘face of the gods’ in ritual texts
  • Akkadianpānupānu ‘face, front, presence’ (CAD P 92); ina pāni ‘before, in the presence of’
  • Arabicفناءfanā'fanā' (فناء) ‘courtyard, forecourt’; related to approaching a presence

Attestations2 cited

  1. PK Za 103D]SI I-PI-NA-MI-NA SI-[face, presence (of)
  2. PK Za 113DI-PI-NA-MI-NA SI-RU-[?] I-NA-JA-PA-QAin the presence of

Commentary

PK Za 10 and PK Za 11, Palaikastro stone vessels, beside the formula words A-TA-I-*301-WA-E and A-SA-SA-RA-ME: a reduplicated expansion of I-PI-NA-MA ʾipinama ‘face, presence’ (√p-n-m), whose reading and cognates it shares.

On the 3D inscriptions3 inscriptions

PK Za 11Palaikastroi-pi-na-mi-na…PK Za 8Palaikastroi-piMatched on its surviving signsPK Za 10Palaikastroi-pi-na-mi-na
Linear A Lexicon