# TA-NA-TI (Tanāti)

> the goddess TNT (Tinnit), feminine of √t-n-n 'sea-dragon'

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

- Reading: Tanāti
- 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) · TI (ti)

## Compared forms

- Punic: TNT (Tanit/Tinnit)
- Hebrew: *tannîn* — tannîn "sea-dragon" (HALOT 1764)
- Ugaritic: 𐎚𐎐𐎐 *tnn* — tnn "sea-dragon" (HALOT 1764)

## Attestations

- [HT 10b](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT10b/index.md>): TA-NA-TI 9 ¹⁄₄ — Tanit variant (theonym or personal name), 9¼
- [HT 49a](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT49a/index.md>): \]TA-NA-TI 1 — Tanit variant (theonym or personal name), 1
- [HT 7a](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT7a/index.md>): TA-NA-TI 1 — Tanit variant (theonym or personal name), 1
- [HT 98a](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT98a/index.md>): TA-NA-TI ³⁄₄ — recipient of ¾; Tanit variant (theonym or personal name)

## Commentary

Four Haghia Triada lists: HT 7a TA-NA-TI 1, among the men under QE-TI · VIR+[?]; HT 10b TA-NA-TI 9¼, the last entry; HT 49a ]TA-NA-TI 1, in a list with KU-PA₃-NU and TU-SU-PU₂; HT 98a TA-NA-TI ¾, among fractional issues with RO-KE and KA-RI-*310-I. Tanāti, the goddess TNT with the a-vowels against Punic Tinnit: the feminine of √t-n-n, Heb. tannîn, Tannin 'sea-monster, sea-dragon', Ug. tnn (HALOT 1764). Rival: ʿAnat with the feminine prefix t-, *t(a)-ʿanât > *teʿnât > *tennât (Hvidberg-Hansen 1979, 140, who takes the prefix as Libyco-Berber). TA-NA-TE is the Zakros form. See TA-NA-TE.

## 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-TE](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/TA-NA-TE/index.md>) (Tanāt)

## In the onomasticon

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

## Related forms

- TI-NI-TA (HT27a, CONFIRMED)
- TA-NA-TE (ZA10a, SPECULATIVE)

## References

- Reading: di Mino; HALOT; Hvidberg-Hansen 1979
- 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
- Hvidberg-Hansen, F. O. (1979), La Déesse TNT: Une étude sur la religion canaanéo-punique, I–II (II: Notes). G.E.C. Gad's Forlag, Copenhague

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