I-RA₂

goddess; rival ʾila 'god'

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Reading
ʾilā(t)
Confidence
Speculative
Root
*ʾil- ‘god, deity’
Kind
Divine
Language
Semitic
Rank
—

Compared forms

  • Akkadianilatilat ‘goddess’
  • Ugariticiltilt ‘goddess’
  • Hebrewʾēlatʾēlat (construct) ‘goddess of’
  • Arabicʾilāhatʾilāhat ‘goddess’
  • Amorite (rival)ila, *ilāh ‘god’ (Huffmon 1965, 165)

Attestations8 cited

  1. HT Wa 1006I-RA₂goddess (√ʾ-l, fem. of ʾil 'god'); rival ʾila 'god'
  2. HT Wa 1007I-RA₂goddess (√ʾ-l, fem. of ʾil 'god'); rival ʾila 'god'
  3. HT Wa 1008I-RA₂goddess (√ʾ-l, fem. of ʾil 'god'); rival ʾila 'god'
  4. HT Wa 1009I-RA₂goddess (√ʾ-l, fem. of ʾil 'god'); rival ʾila 'god'
  5. HT Wa 1010I-RA₂goddess (√ʾ-l, fem. of ʾil 'god'); rival ʾila 'god'
  6. HT Wa 1011I-RA₂goddess (√ʾ-l, fem. of ʾil 'god'); rival ʾila 'god'
  7. HT Wa 1012I-RA₂goddess (√ʾ-l, fem. of ʾil 'god'); rival ʾila 'god'
  8. HT Wa 1013I-RA₂goddess (√ʾ-l, fem. of ʾil 'god'); rival ʾila 'god'

Commentary

HT Wa 1006–1013: eight sealings bearing only I-RA₂, in two hands (scribes 52 and 53), from one deposit, Portico 11 and Room 13, LM IB; one context. I ʾi, RA₂ la: feminine ʾilat- ‘goddess’ (Akk. ilat, Ug. ỉlt ‘goddess’, DULAT 63), the final -t unwritten. Rival: masculine ʾila ‘god’, Ug. il /ʾilu/ ‘god; El’ (Huehnergard 2012, 41), the Amorite name element *ilāh, almost always first in a name (Huffmon 1965, 162; I-la-sa-lim, Sa-mu-ū-i-la, 165), and Ebla’s bare i-la ‘the god’ as a name (Pagan 1998, row 2700). See SA-RE-JU, PI-RU-E-JU and DI-NA-RO.

On the 3D inscriptions

Not written on any of the 82 inscriptions modelled so far.

Linear A Lexicon