JA-DI-KI-TU

IO Za 2, position 2 of the libation formula. JA- is the vocative ya-, and DI-KI-TU spells diktu with the -TU vowel written, against Greek Δίκτη. The goddess named here is the addressee of the verb at position 1, A-TA-I-*301-WA-JA ʾatainawaya ‘I make myself a dwelling’, the worshipper settling before her; each peak sanctuary invokes its mountain, Diktu at Iouktas and Palaikastro, Ida at Kophinas and Syme. Astour’s etymology: Ug. dqt ‘female head of small cattle for sacrifice’ (Gordon UT §19.695), *daqqatu, *diqqatu, a divine name in a Ugaritic god-list (Astour, ‘New Evidence for the Semitic Derivation of the Greek Name of the Mountain Dikte’, 1966). Hesiod calls the mountain Αἰγαίῳ ἐν ὄρει, ‘Goat’s Mountain’ (Theog. 481–482 West), a Graeco-Semitic doublet, and Amenhotep III’s list spells it Di-qa- with the determinative ‘high’ (Astour, ‘Aegean Place Names’, 1966). Clay goats are the commonest votive at peak sanctuaries, and Amalthea, the goat who nursed Zeus in the Dictaean Cave, is the goddess brought down to a wet-nurse. Palaikastro, of Proto-Phoenician dialect, writes the nisbe -TE-TE: A-DI-KI-TE-TE, and the vocative JA-DI-KI-TE-TE in JA-DI-KI-TE-TE-DU-PU₂-RE ‘O Diqqitīt of the sanctuary’ (PK Za 15) and JA-DI-KI-TE-TE-*307-PU₂-RE, with the *307 DUBUR logogram (PK Za 8). See A-DI-KI-TE-TE.