# KA-KU-NE-TE (Kakku-ʿAnēt)

> Weapon of Anat (theophoric personal name); rival Egyptian Neith as the second element

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

- Reading: Kakku-ʿAnēt
- Confidence: Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once.
- Root: [\*kakk-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/3844/index.md>) 'weapon' + [\*ʕanat-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/2771/index.md>) 'Anat (warrior goddess)'
- Kind: Personal name
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: KA (ka) · KU (ku) · NE (ne) · TE (te)
- Rank: Amorite-linked appendix

## Compared forms

- Akkadian: *kakku* — kakku 'weapon, arms' (CAD K 52); Kakka, DN
- Amorite: kakkum, 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)
- Ugaritic: 𐎓𐎐𐎚 *ʿnt* — ʿnt 'Anat' (DULAT 167)
- Egyptian: *mhr.j ꜥnṯj* — mhr.j ꜥnṯj 'warrior of Anat', of the king (ORAEC 113, 564, 922); n.t 'Neith' in sꜣ-n.t, wsr-n.t (PNM v6)

## Attestations

- [ZA 10b](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/ZA10b/index.md>): KA-KU-NE-TE ¹⁄₂ — Weapon 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.

## Same root

- [I-NA-TA-I](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/I-NA-TA-I/index.md>) (ʿInatī)
- [DA-RU-NE-TE](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/DA-RU-NE-TE/index.md>) (Dāru-ʿAnēt)
- [KA-KU](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/KA-KU/index.md>) (Kakku)

## In the onomasticon

- [KA-KU-NE-TE](<https://linear-a.ai/names/KA-KU-NE-TE/index.md>): Personal name, Semitic

## Related forms

- I-NA-TA-I (ʿInatī, 'my Anat,' lexicon)
- TA-NA-TI (Tanāti, Tanit variant, lexicon)

## References

- Reading: di Mino; Gelb 1980; ARM 26/1; Podany 2002; Kinlaw 1967; Gardiner 1935; ORAEC; Ilin-Tomich 2025
- AS 21: Gelb, Ignace J. (1980), Computer-aided Analysis of Amorite. Assyriological Studies 21,The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago
- CAD K: Oriental Institute (A. Leo Oppenheim and Erica Reiner, eds.) (1971), The Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, vol. 8, K. The Oriental Institute, Chicago; J. J. Augustin, Glückstadt
- 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
- Kinlaw, Dennis F. (1967), A Study of the Personal Names in the Akkadian Texts from Ugarit. Brandeis University, Department of Mediterranean Studies (Ph.D. dissertation)
- Podany, Amanda H. (2002), The Land of Hana: Kings, Chronology, and Scribal Tradition. CDL Press, Bethesda, Maryland
- Gardiner, Alan H. (ed.) (1935), Hieratic Papyri in the British Museum, Third Series: Chester Beatty Gift, Vol. I: Text. British Museum, London
- PNM: Ilin-Tomich, Alexander (2025), Persons and Names of the Middle Kingdom (PNM), version 6. Zenodo (Freie Universität Berlin); CC BY 4.0

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