# TA-I-NU-MA-PA (Tainumapa)

> She of Memphis: Egyptian woman's name Tꜣ-n.t-Mn-nfr

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

- Reading: Tainumapa
- Confidence: Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once.
- Kind: Personal name
- Language: Middle Egyptian
- Signs: TA (ta) · I (i) · NU (nu) · MA (ma) · PA (pa)

## Compared forms

- Egyptian: *tꜣ-n.t-mn-nfr* — tꜣ-n.t-mn-nfr 'she of Memphis', a woman's name (PNM v6, personal_names_id 142613640; Ranke I, 360.14)
- Hebrew: *Mōp* — Mōp 'Memphis', miṣrayim təqabbəṣēm mōp təqabbərēm 'Egypt shall gather them, Memphis shall bury them' (Hos 9:6; HALOT 617)

## Attestations

- [ZA 8](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/ZA8/index.md>): TA-I-NU-MA-PA ¹⁄₂ — She-of-Memphis (Egyptian woman's name), ½

## Commentary

ZA 8 .3–4 TA-I-NU-MA-PA ∠, intact, after A-RI-NI-TA 'She-of-the-Lion' (GORILA III 165). The Egyptian woman's name tꜣ-n.t-mn-nfr 'she of Memphis' (Ranke I, 360.14; Ilin-Tomich 2025, s.v. tꜣ-n.t-mn-nfr), borne by three Memphite women from Amenhotep II to Sety I (Prosopographia Memphitica, persons 1509, 1828, 2490). TA-I writes the article with the j of its usual spelling, the pestle tj (ti n:t mn nfr; Ilin-Tomich 2025), tꜣy beside tꜣ (Allen 2014, §5.11), as DA-I writes ṭay- in DA-I-PI-TA on the same tablet. NU writes n(.t), MA-PA Memphis as Coptic ⲙⲛϥⲉ has it (Peust 1999, 254): the n a coda left unwritten, as in Linear B a-to-ro-qo anthrōqʷos (Ventris and Chadwick 1956, 45), the r lost as in Amarna na-ap-ḫur-ri-ia (Hess 1993, 116); Hebrew מֹף Mōp (Hos 9:6). Rival: a Minoan name. Weak point: the lost vowel between n and f is attested only in Coptic and Greek. One witness.

## In the onomasticon

- [TA-I-NU-MA-PA](<https://linear-a.ai/names/TA-I-NU-MA-PA/index.md>): Personal name, Egyptian

## References

- Reading: di Mino; Ilin-Tomich 2025 (PNM v6); Prosopographia Memphitica; Allen 2014; Peust 1999; Ventris and Chadwick 1956; Hess 1993
- Ventris, M. & Chadwick, J. (1956), Documents in Mycenaean Greek: Three Hundred Selected Tablets from Knossos, Pylos and Mycenae with Commentary and Vocabulary. Cambridge University Press
- 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
- Peust, Carsten (1999), Egyptian Phonology: An Introduction to the Phonology of a Dead Language. Monographien zur ägyptischen Sprache 2,Peust & Gutschmidt, Göttingen
- GORILA III: Godart, Louis; Olivier, Jean-Pierre (1976), Recueil des inscriptions en linéaire A, volume 3: Tablettes, nodules et rondelles édités en 1975 et 1976 (GORILA III). École française d'Athènes (Études crétoises XXI, 3); Librairie orientaliste Paul Geuthner, Paris
- Hess, Richard S. (1993), Amarna Personal Names. Eisenbrauns, Winona Lake (American Schools of Oriental Research Dissertation Series 9)
- Allen, James P. (2014), Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge; 3rd ed. (1st ed. 2000, 2nd ed. 2010); ISBN 978-1-107-05364-9 (hardback), 978-1-107-66328-2 (paperback)
- PNM: Ilin-Tomich, Alexander (2025), Persons and Names of the Middle Kingdom (PNM), version 6. Zenodo (Freie Universität Berlin); CC BY 4.0

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