MI-DA-NI

loins, hip meat—choice cut on sacrificial fat allocation tablet

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Reading: mitāni
Confidence: Speculative
Root: *matn- ‘sinew, tendon’
Kind: Body part
Language: Semitic
Rank: —

Compared forms

Hebrewmāṯnayimmāṯnayim ‘loins, hips’ (Deut 33:11; Exod 28:42)
Akkadianmatnumatnu ‘sinew, tendon’ (CAD M/1 412)
Ugaritic𐎎𐎚𐎐𐎚mtntmtnt ‘loin’, a cult term (GlOS 2, 59)
Arabicmatn, pl. mitān (Lane 3017)

Attestations1 cited

HT 41aMI-DA-NI PA-JA 2 double minaloins, hip meat

Commentary

HT 41a, unquantified before PA-JA 2 on a tablet of *304 (fat) allocations: MI-DA-NI PA-JA 2, a weight. Heb. māṯnayim ‘loins’. Ebla writes matn ‘tendon’ SA.ŠU = ma-da-nu, with DA for t (GlOS 2, 59). MI writes the i of the plural, as in Arabic mitān (Lane 3017). Rival: a heading or title before PA-JA. One attestation.

On the 3D inscriptions

Not written on any of the 82 inscriptions modelled so far.