TA-NA-TE

Tanāt, a variant of Tinit, the goddess TNT, feminine of √t-n-n 'sea-dragon'; rival a form of A-TA-NA-TE ʾAtanat

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Reading
Tanāt
Confidence
Candidate
Root
*tinnīt- ‘Tanit/Tinit (Punic goddess, face of Baal)’ + *tVnnVn- ‘(mythical) snake, dragon’
Kind
Divine
Language
Semitic
Rank
—

Compared forms

  • PunicTNT (Tanit, Tinnit); in Greek letters Θινιθ, Θεννειθ (Krahmalkov 2000, 495)
  • Hebrewתַּנִּיןtannīntannīn תַּנִּין "dragon/sea-serpent"
  • Ugaritic𐎚𐎐𐎐tnntnn "dragon" (KTU 1.3 III 40; DULAT p. 860)
  • Greekθύννοςθύννος "tunny" (BDB: Phoenician loanword from same root)

Attestations1 cited

  1. ZA 10aTA-NA-TE 2Tanāt, a variant of Tinit, the goddess TNT; A-TA-NA-TE ʾAtanat is a separate entry on the same tablet.

Commentary

ZA 10a TA-NA-TE 2 heads a list of single entries, with A-TA-NA-TE 1 the fourth. Tanāt, as the signs write it, a variant of Tinit, the goddess TNT, on √t-n-n: Ugaritic tnn ‘dragon’ (DULAT 860). TA writes the t, or the ṯ of ṯ-n-n, as scribes wrote ṯ in the T-series (di Mino, Ya Diktu 16–17 n. 27). TI-NI-TA writes Tinit with i, TA-NA-TI and TA-NA-TE with a. Cf. Linear B ta-na-to (KN De 1618). Rival: a form of A-TA-NA-TE ʾAtanat (√y-t-n), as Ya Diktu 45 relates it. See TA-NA-TI.

On the 3D inscriptions

Not written on any of the 82 inscriptions modelled so far.

Linear A Lexicon