# PA-NA-TU (banātu / panātu / (Ku)bānatu)

> daughters (fem. pl.) / portions / Kubaba devotees (cf. KU-PA-NA-TU)

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

- Reading: banātu / panātu / (Ku)bānatu
- Confidence: Candidate. A comparison worth testing; the evidence is thin or the word is rare.
- Root: [\*bint-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/K0016/index.md>) 'daughter'
- Kind: Personnel
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: PA (pa) · NA (na) · TU (tu)

## Compared forms

- Hebrew: *bānôt* — bānôt 'daughters', plural of bat (HALOT 165)
- Ugaritic: 𐎁𐎚 *bt* — bt 'daughter' (DULAT 241)
- Phoenician: 𐤁𐤕 *bt* — bt 'daughter' (Krahmalkov 128)

## Attestations

- [KH 7b](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/KH7b/index.md>): PA-NA-TU CYP+D ¹⁄₂ — the daughters; cyperus ½

## Commentary

KH 7b, a Khania vessel allocation tablet, standalone. Three readings: banātu 'daughters', a personnel category, PA for b (Akk. fem. pl. of bintu, Ug. bnt, Heb. bānōt); panātu 'faces, portions', share categories (Akk., Heb. pānîm); and (Ku)bānatu, a devotee title, the tail of KU-PA-NA-TU, the feminine of Kubaba, which Khania's Anatolian contact layer favours. KU-PA-NA-TU carries the KU- that PA-NA-TU lacks. One attestation. See PO-TO-KU-RO.

## Same root

- [PO-TO-KU-RO](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/PO-TO-KU-RO/index.md>) (batkull)

## In the onomasticon

- [PA-NA-TU](<https://linear-a.ai/names/PA-NA-TU/index.md>): Title, Semitic

## References

- Reading: di Mino
- 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
- 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

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