# KI-KI-NA (Kikkina)

> Kikkina, recipient or named administrative entity

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

- Reading: Kikkina
- Confidence: Candidate. A comparison worth testing; the evidence is thin or the word is rare.
- Root: Kikkina (Pre-Greek)
- Kind: Personal name
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: KI (ki) · KI (ki) · NA (na)
- Rank: Amorite-linked appendix

## Compared forms

- Amorite: KIKKIN-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
- Ugaritic: kkn, personal name of uncertain etymology; distinct kknt 'pot/vessel' has final -t
- Eblaite: Gi-gi-na, a singer (nar) from Mari (Prosopography of Ebla, list nar)
- Old Babylonian: Ki-ki-nu-um at Sippar (de Boer 2014, 369)

## Attestations

- [HT 88](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT88/index.md>): NI KI-KI-NA 7 — recipient 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.

## In the onomasticon

- [KI-KI-NA](<https://linear-a.ai/names/KI-KI-NA/index.md>): Personal name, Semitic

## References

- Reading: di Mino; Gelb 1980, AS 21 nos. 4036–4038; Prosopography of Ebla; de Boer 2014
- AS 21: Gelb, Ignace J. (1980), Computer-aided Analysis of Amorite. Assyriological Studies 21,The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago
- 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
- de Boer, Rients (2014), Amorites in the Early Old Babylonian Period. 

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