# I-RA₂ (ʾilā(t))

> goddess; rival ʾila 'god'

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

- Reading: ʾilā(t)
- Confidence: Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once.
- Root: [\*ʾil-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/2719/index.md>) 'god, deity; El (supreme god)'
- Kind: Divine
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: I (i) · RA₂ (ra₂)

## Compared forms

- Akkadian: *ilat* — ilat 'goddess'
- Ugaritic: *ilt* — ilt 'goddess'
- Hebrew: *ʾēlat* — ʾēlat (construct) 'goddess of'
- Arabic: *ʾilāhat* — ʾilāhat 'goddess'
- Amorite (rival): ila, *ilāh 'god' (Huffmon 1965, 165)

## Attestations

- [HT Wa 1006](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HTWa1006/index.md>): I-RA₂ — goddess (√ʾ-l, fem. of ʾil 'god'); rival ʾila 'god'
- [HT Wa 1007](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HTWa1007/index.md>): I-RA₂ — goddess (√ʾ-l, fem. of ʾil 'god'); rival ʾila 'god'
- [HT Wa 1008](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HTWa1008/index.md>): I-RA₂ — goddess (√ʾ-l, fem. of ʾil 'god'); rival ʾila 'god'
- [HT Wa 1009](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HTWa1009/index.md>): I-RA₂ — goddess (√ʾ-l, fem. of ʾil 'god'); rival ʾila 'god'
- [HT Wa 1010](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HTWa1010/index.md>): I-RA₂ — goddess (√ʾ-l, fem. of ʾil 'god'); rival ʾila 'god'
- [HT Wa 1011](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HTWa1011/index.md>): I-RA₂ — goddess (√ʾ-l, fem. of ʾil 'god'); rival ʾila 'god'
- [HT Wa 1012](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HTWa1012/index.md>): I-RA₂ — goddess (√ʾ-l, fem. of ʾil 'god'); rival ʾila 'god'
- [HT Wa 1013](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HTWa1013/index.md>): I-RA₂ — goddess (√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.

## Same root

- [DI-NA-RO](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/DI-NA-RO/index.md>) (Dānīlo / Dānīlu)
- [PI-RU-E-JU](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/PI-RU-E-JU/index.md>) (Pirʾu-ʾēlu)
- [SA-RE-JU](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/SA-RE-JU/index.md>) (Šarr-ēlu)

## In the onomasticon

- [I-RA₂](<https://linear-a.ai/names/I-RA~E2~82~82/index.md>): God or goddess, Semitic

## References

- Reading: di Mino; GORILA II; DULAT; Huehnergard 2012; Huffmon 1965; Pagan 1998
- Huehnergard, John (2012), An Introduction to Ugaritic. Hendrickson
- APNM: Huffmon, Herbert B. (1965), Amorite Personal Names in the Mari Texts: A Structural and Lexical Study. The Johns Hopkins Press, Baltimore
- Pagan, Joseph M. (1998), Ebla Electronic Corpus: Onomastic Data Base. Undena Publications (1998 disk); HTML edition by G. Buccellati, IIMAS / Cybernetica Mesopotamica (2012)
- 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
- GORILA II: Godart, Louis; Olivier, Jean-Pierre (1979), Recueil des inscriptions en linéaire A, volume 2: Nodules, scellés et rondelles édités avant 1970 (GORILA II). École française d'Athènes (Études crétoises XXI, 2); Librairie orientaliste Paul Geuthner, Paris

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