# TA-NA-TE (Tanāt)

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

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

- Reading: Tanāt
- Confidence: Candidate. A comparison worth testing; the evidence is thin or the word is rare.
- Root: [\*tinnīt-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/2967/index.md>) 'Tanit/Tinit (Punic goddess, face of Baal)' + [\*tVnnVn-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/238/index.md>) '(mythical) snake, dragon'
- Kind: Divine
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: TA (ta) · NA (na) · TE (te)

## Compared forms

- Punic: TNT (Tanit, Tinnit); in Greek letters Θινιθ, Θεννειθ (Krahmalkov 2000, 495)
- Hebrew: תַּנִּין *tannīn* — tannīn תַּנִּין "dragon/sea-serpent"
- Ugaritic: 𐎚𐎐𐎐 *tnn* — tnn "dragon" (KTU 1.3 III 40; DULAT p. 860)
- Greek: θύννος — θύννος "tunny" (BDB: Phoenician loanword from same root)

## Attestations

- [ZA 10a](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/ZA10a/index.md>): TA-NA-TE 2 — Tanāt, 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.

## Same root

- [TI-NI-TA](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/TI-NI-TA/index.md>) (Tinitu)
- [TI-NI-TA \*307](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/TI-NI-TA~20*307/index.md>) (Tinitu Dubur)
- [TA-NA-TI](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/TA-NA-TI/index.md>) (Tanāti)

## In the onomasticon

- [TA-NA-TE](<https://linear-a.ai/names/TA-NA-TE/index.md>): God or goddess, Semitic

## Related forms

- TI-NI-TA (HT27a, CONFIRMED)—i-vocalization (\*Tinnīt\*)
- TA-NA-TI (HT 4×, CANDIDATE)—a-vocalization (\*Tanāti\*)
- Θηναί (Thenai, Cretan toponym near Amnisos)—Greek rendering with ṯ→θ

## References

- Reading: di Mino; DULAT; Krahmalkov 2000
- KTU: Dietrich, Manfried; Loretz, Oswald; Sanmartín, Joaquín (2013), Die keilalphabetischen Texte aus Ugarit, Ras Ibn Hani und anderen Orten / The Cuneiform Alphabetic Texts from Ugarit, Ras Ibn Hani and Other Places (KTU³). Ugarit-Verlag, Münster (Alter Orient und Altes Testament 360/1); ISBN 978-3-86835-014-2
- Krahmalkov: Krahmalkov, Charles R. (2000), A Phoenician-Punic Dictionary. Peeters (Leuven)
- DULAT: del Olmo Lete, Gregorio; Sanmartín, Joaquín (2015), A Dictionary of the Ugaritic Language in the Alphabetic Tradition. Brill, Leiden/Boston (Handbook of Oriental Studies 1/112); Third Revised Edition, tr. and ed. Wilfred G.E. Watson; 2 parts
- BDB: Brown, Francis; Driver, S. R.; Briggs, Charles A. (1907), A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament, with an Appendix Containing the Biblical Aramaic. Houghton Mifflin Company
- Ya Diktu: di Mino, Tom (2026), Ya Diktu: Grammar of the Minoan Peak Sanctuary Libation Formula. Minoan Mystery, online,46 pp.

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