PA-I-TO

Phaistos (place name)

First proposed by Cyrus H. Gordon, Evidence for the Minoan Language (1966), §114 n. 48.

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Reading
Paito
Confidence
Confirmed
Root
Φαιστός (Pre-Greek, suffix -ιστ-; Beekes 2014, 39, 164)
Kind
Toponym
Language
Semitic
Rank
#14 of the top 100

Compared forms

  • Egyptianbyšt, recarved on the Kom el-Hetan Aegean list of Amenhotep III, identified with Phaistos (Cline and Stannish 2011, 7–9)
  • Linear Bpa-i-to, the town, on the Knossos sheep tablets (KN Da 1163, Da 1156, Db 1159 and others)

Attestations2 cited

  1. HT 97aPA-I-TO 6
  2. HT 120PA-I-TO 3 ¹⁄₅Phaistos (place name)

Commentary

HT 97a PA-I-TO 6, among the entries under KA-RU · *307+*307 · VIR+KA 82, after KA-NU-TI 25; HT 120 PA-I-TO 3⅕, the last entry, after KI-RE-TA-NA GRA+B 60 and GRA+PA 48. Linear B writes the same pa-i-to for Phaistos, the town of the Knossos tablets (DMic II 68).

On the 3D inscriptions

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

Linear A Lexicon