# PA-TA-DA (Patada)

> personal name; Egyptian Ptḥ-dj(⸗f) 'Ptah gives'; rival Hurrian pṭḏ (Ugarit)

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

- Reading: Patada
- Confidence: Candidate. A comparison worth testing; the evidence is thin or the word is rare.
- Kind: Personal name
- Language: Middle Egyptian
- Signs: PA (pa) · TA (ta) · DA (da)

## Compared forms

- Egyptian: ptḥ-dj⸗f, a man's name (PNM v6, personal_names_id 142614558)
- Ugaritic: pṭḏ PN, Hurrian (DULAT 676), the rival

## Attestations

- [PH(?) 31a](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/PH(~3F)31a/index.md>): PA-TA-DA\[
- [HT Zb 160](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HTZb160/index.md>): PA-TA-DA DU-PU₂-RE\[ — PN — Ptaḥ-di(w) 'Ptah-given' (Egyptian theophoric)

## Commentary

PH(?) 31a .3 PA-TA-DA[, after KU-PA₃-NU SUS+SI+RE 1, broken after DA at the line end; HT Zb 160 PA-TA-DA DU-PU₂-RE[, a vessel label 'Patada: to the sanctuary'. Egyptian ptḥ-dj⸗f, a man's name under Thutmose IV–Amenhotep III (PNM v6, Louvre C 277), the ḥ and the ⸗f unwritten; Amarna writes Ptah -ptaḫ in Ḫi-ku-up-ta-aḫ (EA 84:37; RGTC 12/2, 105). Rival: Hurrian pṭḏ, a man at Ugarit (KTU 4.357:23; DULAT 676).

## In the onomasticon

- [PA-TA-DA](<https://linear-a.ai/names/PA-TA-DA/index.md>): Personal name, Egyptian

## References

- Reading: Ilin-Tomich 2025 (PNM v6), s.v. ptḥ-dj⸗f; DULAT 676; di Mino
- KTU: Dietrich, Manfried; Loretz, Oswald; Sanmartín, Joaquín (2013), Die keilalphabetischen Texte aus Ugarit, Ras Ibn Hani und anderen Orten / The Cuneiform Alphabetic Texts from Ugarit, Ras Ibn Hani and Other Places (KTU³). Ugarit-Verlag, Münster (Alter Orient und Altes Testament 360/1); ISBN 978-3-86835-014-2
- EA: Moran, William L. (1992), The Amarna Letters. Johns Hopkins University Press
- 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
- RGTC 12/2: Belmonte Marín, Juan Antonio (2001), Die Orts- und Gewässernamen der Texte aus Syrien im 2. Jt. v. Chr.. Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag, Wiesbaden (Répertoire Géographique des Textes Cunéiformes 12/2; Beihefte zum Tübinger Atlas des Vorderen Orients B 7/12/2)
- PNM: Ilin-Tomich, Alexander (2025), Persons and Names of the Middle Kingdom (PNM), version 6. Zenodo (Freie Universität Berlin); CC BY 4.0

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