# PA-TA-NE (Patne)

> personal name, 'Viper'; rival Ptah-theophoric

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

- Reading: Patne
- Confidence: Candidate. A comparison worth testing; the evidence is thin or the word is rare.
- Root: [\*pa/itn-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/2423/index.md>) 'asp, adder'
- Kind: Personal name
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: PA (pa) · TA (ta) · NE (ne)

## Compared forms

- Hebrew: פֶּתֶן *peten* — peten (פֶּתֶן) 'horned viper'
- Syriac: *patnā* — patnā 'viper, asp'
- Ugaritic: 𐎁𐎘𐎐 *bṯn* — bṯn 'serpent' (KTU 1.5 I 1–2)
- Aramaic: *ptn* — ptn 'snake', source of Heb. peten (Rendsburg 2026, 207–208)
- Greek: Πύθων — Πύθων 'Python', from a Semitic form akin to Heb.-Aram. ptn (Rendsburg 2026, 208)

## Attestations

- [HT 122a](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT122a/index.md>): PA-TA-NE 1 — personal name, 'Viper' (rival Ptah-theophoric)
- [HT 94b](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT94b/index.md>): PA-TA-NE 1 — PN, 'Viper' (rival Ptah-theophoric)
- [HT Wa 1019](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HTWa1019/index.md>): PA-TA-NE — personal name, 'Viper' (rival Ptah-theophoric)

## Commentary

HT 94b (KI-RO · TU-MA 1, PA-TA-NE 1, DE-DI 1 …), HT 122a (PA-TA-NE 1 after KU-PA₃-NU 1, in a roster with JA-MI-DA-RE) and the nodule HT Wa 1019 (PA at the edge). On HT 122a SigLA labels the second sign ri, and its own tracing, GORILA's facsimile and the photo show TA. *patn- 'viper' as a name: Heb. peten (HALOT 990), Ug. bṯn, Akk. bašmu. Rivals: Ptah with ḥ unwritten and -ānu, 'devotee of Ptah', and √p-t-ḥ 'open' with -ānu. Three attestations.

## In the onomasticon

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

## References

- Reading: di Mino; Rendsburg 2026; HALOT
- 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
- 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
- Rendsburg, Gary A. (2026), Across the Mediterranean: Ugaritic Words which Reached Greek and Latin. In Colasuonno, Maria Maddalena; Criscuolo, Alfredo; D'Anna, Luca; Esposito, Raffaele; Lusini, Gianfrancesco; Nicosia, Mara (eds.), Forty Years of Semitic Philology: Studies in Honour of Riccardo Contini, Offered by Friends and Colleagues on the Occasion of His Seventieth Birthday, Volume II,Series Minor CX.2; Serie Orientale Roma n.s. 57.2,UniorPress, Napoli,201–219

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