# I-PI-NA-MI-NA (ʾippina=mi=na)

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

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

- Reading: ʾippina=mi=na
- Confidence: Candidate. A comparison worth testing; the evidence is thin or the word is rare.
- Root: [\*pan-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/144/index.md>) 'face'
- Kind: Ritual
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: I (i) · PI (pi) · NA (na) · MI (mi) · NA (na)

## Compared forms

- Hebrew: פָּנִים *pānīm* — pānīm (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'
- Ugaritic: 𐎔𐎐𐎎 *pnm* — pnm 'face, presence' (DULAT 664); pn ilm 'face of the gods' in ritual texts
- Akkadian: *pānu* — pānu 'face, front, presence' (CAD P 92); ina pāni 'before, in the presence of'
- Arabic: فناء *fanā'* — fanā' (فناء) 'courtyard, forecourt'; related to approaching a presence

## Attestations

- [PK Za 10](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/PKZa10/index.md>): \]SI I-PI-NA-MI-NA SI-\[ — face, presence (of)
- [PK Za 11](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/PKZa11/index.md>): I-PI-NA-MI-NA SI-RU-\[?\] I-NA-JA-PA-QA — in 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.

## Same root

- [I-PI-NA-MA](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/I-PI-NA-MA/index.md>) (ʾippina=ma)
- [PI-\*310-A](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/PI-*310-A/index.md>) (pīnā)

## References

- Reading: di Mino
- 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
- CAD P: Oriental Institute (Martha T. Roth, ed.) (2005), The Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, vol. 12, P. The Oriental Institute, Chicago

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