KI-KI-NA

Kikkina, recipient or named administrative entity

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Reading
Kikkina
Confidence
Candidate
Root
Kikkina (Pre-Greek)
Kind
Personal name
Language
Semitic
Rank
Amorite-linked appendix

Compared forms

  • AmoriteKIKKIN-I (KI-IK-KI-NI), KIKKIN-U (KI-IK-KI-NU), KIKKIN-UM (KI-IK-KI-NUM), with KI-KI-NU-UM and KI-IK-KI-NI-IM variants
  • Ugaritickkn, personal name of uncertain etymology; distinct kknt ‘pot/vessel’ has final -t
  • EblaiteGi-gi-na, a singer (nar) from Mari (Prosopography of Ebla, list nar)
  • Old BabylonianKi-ki-nu-um at Sippar (de Boer 2014, 369)

Attestations1 cited

  1. HT 883DNI KI-KI-NA 7recipient or named administrative entity

Commentary

HT 88 .3 NI · KI-KI-NA 7: after the fig logogram NI and before the quantity, a recipient, group or other named entity, ‘figs: Kikkina, 7’. Amorite has the close name KIKKIN, written KI-IK-KI-NI, KI-IK-KI-NU and KI-IK-KI-NUM (Gelb 1980, nos. 4036–4038). Ugaritic kkn is a personal name of unknown etymology (DULAT 429). One attestation.

On the 3D inscriptions1 inscription

HT 88Haghia Triada…ki-ki-na
Linear A Lexicon