PI-TE-RI

PK Za 11, once: PI-TE-RI A-KO-A-NE, in the subject or dedicant slot (Davis 2013, 42–43; Thomas 2020, 8–10). Piṭrī ‘my release’, a personal name in apposition to A-KO-A-NE ‘the priest’, on the qitl base of Ugaritic /piṭru/ ‘loosening, release’ (GlOS 2, 142): Ugaritic PN pṭry (DULAT 677), Amorite PTR ‘solve, redeem’ in Annu-puṭri and Ištar-puṭri (Gelb 1980, 339; Nakata 1995, 244). Rivals: the common noun piṭrī ‘my release’; a 2fs imperative ‘release!’; the goddess Pidray (pdry, syllabic pi-id-ra-yu), with TE writing d; Gordon’s pi-te za ‘this engraved monument’ (1966, §124), Phoenician ptḥ ‘inscription’ with z ‘this’ after it, as pthy z (KAI 10.3–5, 14), which reads the third sign, a loop on a long stroke, as ZA where GORILA dots RI, with no divider before it.