# KI-TA-NI-TE (kitānit)

> linen robe, linen cloth

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

- Reading: kitānit
- Confidence: Candidate. A comparison worth testing; the evidence is thin or the word is rare.
- Root: [\*kitn-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/2678/index.md>) 'linen, tunic'
- Kind: Commodity
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: KI (ki) · TA (ta) · NI (ni) · TE (te)

## Compared forms

- Akkadian: kitītu, var. kitintu "linen robe" (eBL kitītu I); kitû "flax, linen"
- Hebrew: kətōnet / kuttōnet "tunic" (Gen 37:3; Exod 28:39) < *kutān-t
- Ugaritic: 𐎋𐎚𐎐 *ktn* — ktn "tunic"
- Phoenician: *KTN* — KTN "tunic" (Krahmalkov 2000)
- Aramaic: *kittānā* — kittānā "flax" (Tg. Onq. Exod 9:31 for pištāh)

## Attestations

- [PK Zb 21](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/PKZb21/index.md>): KI-TA-NI-TE

## Commentary

PK Zb 21, a pithos incised before firing (Building 7, MM IIIB–LM IA). A -t derivative of KI-TA-NA (PE Zb 3 KI-TA-NA-SI-JA-SE; KH 60 RA-KI-TA-NA-SI); the reading, and the recurrence of KI-TA-N-, follow Davis (Kadmos 47, 2008, 1–2, apud Younger, Linear A Texts, Other Texts: Palaikastro). Unshifted ā: the pre-Canaanite form of Heb. kuttōnet, kətōnet 'tunic' (HALOT 505). As a jar label, the stored linen goods. Rival: ME-WI-TA-NI-TE, cf. HT Wc 3004a–3005a (Driessen 1991, apud Younger).

## Same root

- [KI-TA-NA](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/KI-TA-NA/index.md>) (kitāna)

## References

- Reading: di Mino; Younger, Linear A Texts; HALOT
- Davis, Brent (2008), A New Reading of PK Zb 21. Kadmos,47,55–56
- Krahmalkov: Krahmalkov, Charles R. (2000), A Phoenician-Punic Dictionary. Peeters (Leuven)
- HALOT: Koehler, Ludwig; Baumgartner, Walter; Stamm, Johann Jakob; Richardson, M. E. J. (trans. and ed.) (1994), The Hebrew and Aramaic Lexicon of the Old Testament, vols. I–IV. E. J. Brill, Leiden · New York · Köln

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