# QA-TI-DA-TE (Kati-tati)

> Kati-tati (Hurrian personal name); rival katītat 'beaten (oil)'

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

- Reading: Kati-tati
- Confidence: Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once.
- Kind: Personal name
- Language: Hurrian
- Signs: QA (qa) · TI (ti) · DA (da) · TE (te)

## Compared forms

- Hurrian: kat-: Nuzi Kataia, Qa-ta-a-a, and Katiri, Qa-ti-ri (NPN 224); -tati: Ḫamar-tati, Šenna-tati, also Še-en-da-ti (NPN 263); tat 'love' (NPN 263)

## Attestations

- [HT 12](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT12/index.md>): QA-TI-DA-TE OLE+DI 5 — Kati-tati, Hurrian personal name, recipient heading the issue; rival katītat 'beaten (oil)'. The stem QA-TI- stands at four sites (QA-TI-KI, QA-TI-JU, QA-TI-DA-TE, TI-DI-TE-QA-TI); this word once

## Commentary

HT 12 .1 QA-TI-DA-TE · OLE+DI 5, the heading of an issue of oils, fats, wool and figs totalled DA-I 50 (GORILA I 25). qa-ti-da-te: Nuzi writes kat- with QA (Qa-ti-ri, NPN 224) and -tati with DA (Še-en-da-ti, NPN 263). A recipient heading a mixed issue, as A-PU₂-NA-DU on HT 14. Rival: katītat 'beaten (oil)', √k-t-t (PS *ktt), Hebrew šemen kātît (Exod 27:20), an adjective only. One witness.

## In the onomasticon

- [QA-TI-DA-TE](<https://linear-a.ai/names/QA-TI-DA-TE/index.md>): Personal name, Hurrian

## References

- Reading: di Mino; NPN
- NPN: Gelb, Ignace J.; Purves, Pierre M.; MacRae, Allan A. (1943), Nuzi Personal Names. Oriental Institute Publications 57, University of Chicago
- GORILA I: Godart, Louis; Olivier, Jean-Pierre (1976), Recueil des inscriptions en linéaire A, volume 1: Tablettes éditées avant 1970 (GORILA I). École française d'Athènes (Études crétoises XXI, 1); Librairie orientaliste Paul Geuthner, Paris

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