KA-KU-NE-TE
Weapon of Anat (theophoric personal name); rival Egyptian Neith as the second element
- Reading
- Kakku-ʿAnēt
- Confidence
- Speculative
- Kind
- Personal name
- Language
- Semitic
- Rank
- Amorite-linked appendix
Compared forms
- Akkadiankakkukakku ‘weapon, arms’ (CAD K 52); Kakka, DN
- Amoritekakkum, fem. kakka ‘weapon’; Kakka, DN (Gelb 1980); names KAKK-U KA-AK-KU, KAKK-AH KA-AK-KÁ (nos. 3913, 3904); ʿAnat names, see DA-RU-NE-TE
- Akkadian (Ugarit)Šum-Anati, Abdi-Anati (Kinlaw 1967, 111, 7)
- Ugaritic𐎓𐎐𐎚ʿntʿnt ‘Anat’ (DULAT 167)
- Egyptianmhr.j ꜥnṯjmhr.j ꜥnṯj ‘warrior of Anat’, of the king (ORAEC 113, 564, 922); n.t ‘Neith’ in sꜣ-n.t, wsr-n.t (PNM v6)
Attestations1 cited
- ZA 10bKA-KU-NE-TE ¹⁄₂Weapon of Anat (personal name); rival Neith as the second element
Commentary
ZA 10b KA-KU-NE-TE ½, in a must (*131B) list of recipients, after the Egyptian PA-JA-RE Payare 1. KA-KU kakku ‘weapon’, also the god Kakka (Gelb 1980, 22), as in Amorite Kakka-liʾdi (no. 3907), ᶠKakka-lidi (ARM 26/1, 597) and Iddin-Kakka (Podany 2002, 11); -NE-TE ʿAnat (2771), as Šum-Anati and Abdi-Anati at Ugarit (Kinlaw 1967, 111, 7). Anat is the warrior: ‘ʿAnat the divine, she the victorious, a woman acting as a warrior’ (P. Chester Beatty VII vs. 1, 5–8; Gardiner 1935, I, 62); the king is mhr.j ꜥnṯj ‘warrior of Anat’ (ORAEC 113, 564, 922). Face a writes TA-NA-TE and A-TA-NA-TE: the lost ʿa- and the e of -NE-TE are unexplained. Rival: Egyptian Neith (n.t), as sꜣ-n.t, wsr-n.t (Ilin-Tomich 2025, s.v.). See I-NA-TA-I.
On the 3D inscriptions
Not written on any of the 82 inscriptions modelled so far.