PI-MI-NA-TE

by the portions (broken before PI); rivals 'by the recitation', minḥâ 'offering'

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Reading
bi-mināti
Confidence
Speculative
Root
*bV-- ‘in’ + *mVnVw- ~ *ʾVmVn- ‘count’ 1, ‘test, try’ 2, ‘be certain…’
Kind
Ritual
Language
Semitic
Rank
—

Compared forms

  • Ugaritic𐎁bb ‘in, by’ (DULAT 196); mnt (I) ‘portion, ration’ (DULAT 558)
  • Hebrewmānāhmānāh ‘share, portion’, pl. mānôt (Neh 8:10; Esth 9:19) (HALOT 599)
  • Akkadiankaspam ana maniātikunu … dināma ‘give the silver according to the amount you establish’ (TCL 17 14 r. 8, OB; CAD M/2 87)
  • Emarminātmināt ‘portion’ (GlOS 2, 45)

Attestations1 cited

  1. AP Za 23D]PI-MI-NA-TE I-NA-JA-RE-TA[ ]QAby the portions; rival 'by the recitation'

Commentary

AP Za 2 line 2 preserves ]PI-MI-NA-TE from a broken left edge to a divider after TE; PI and MI are written over an erasure (GORILA IV 5). bi-mināti ‘by the portions’: PI the proclitic bi-, as in PI-KU-ZU bi-kuṯ, and mināt ‘portion’, Emar mināt (GlOS 2, 45), Ugaritic mnt (I) ‘portion, ration’ (DULAT 558), Akk. minītu, pl. mināti, ‘amount’ (CAD M/2 86), √m-n-y ‘count, allot’, TE writing the oblique. Rival: Ugaritic mnt ‘enumeration; spell, incantation’ (GlOS 2, 45). Rival: Hebrew minḥâ ‘gift, offering’ (Lev 2:1), Ugaritic mnḥt ‘tribute’ (DULAT 556), with ḥ unwritten. Younger restores I-]PI-MI-NA-TE and compares PI-*34-TE (HT 116a); no I survives before PI. Weak point: the left edge is lost, so a sign may stand before PI. One attestation. See MI+*301, MI-NU-TE and DA-DU-MI-NE.

On the 3D inscriptions

Not written on any of the 82 inscriptions modelled so far (a cited inscription is modelled, but its transcription has the word broken or spelled differently).

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