# RI-KA-TA (Likata)

> Lyktos (place name); compare Egyptian Ri-ka-ta

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

- Reading: Likata
- Confidence: Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once.
- Kind: Toponym
- Language: Aegean, Aegean substrate
- Signs: RI (ri) · KA (ka) · TA (ta)

## Compared forms

- Egyptian: rkt on the Kom el-Hetan Aegean list of Amenhotep III, oval 12, identified with Lyktos (Cline and Stannish 2011, 9–10)
- Linear B: ru-ki-to, the town, KN Da 1288, Da 1289, Db 1279 and others

## Attestations

- [HT 146](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT146/index.md>): RI-KA-TA 30

## Commentary

HT 146 .4 RI-KA-TA 30, the last of four entries of 30 (]QE[ 30, RI-*305 30, MA 30); RI word-initial, TA dotted (GORILA I 241). The Kom el-Hetan list of Amenhotep III (statue base C, no. 9) writes Ri-ka-ta beside the names read as Amnisos and Knossos; Astour takes it as 'most probably identical with the Cretan Lyktos' and explains Likata as a status absolutus beside LB ru-ki-to (Astour 1966, AJA 70, 317). r/l merger; the three vowels match the Egyptian form, not LB ru-ki-to. Lyktos lies far from Haghia Triada. Rests on the dotted TA. One attestation.

## In the onomasticon

- [RI-KA-TA](<https://linear-a.ai/names/RI-KA-TA/index.md>): Place, Aegean substrate

## References

- Reading: di Mino
- Astour, Michael C. (1966), Aegean Place-Names in an Egyptian Inscription. American Journal of Archaeology,70.4,313–317
- Cline, Eric H.; Stannish, Steven M. (2011), Sailing the Great Green Sea? Amenhotep III's "Aegean List" from Kom el-Hetan, Once More. Journal of Ancient Egyptian Interconnections,3:2,6–16
- 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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