TA-NI-KA

Taanach (place name); rival a personal name

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Reading
Taʿnaku
Confidence
Speculative
Root
*ʕnk ‘closure (of a door), fastening, barring’
Kind
Toponym
Language
Semitic
Rank
—

Compared forms

  • HebrewTaʿnakTaʿnak ‘Taanach’, melek taʿnak ʾeḥād ‘the king of Taanach, one’ (Josh 12:21; HALOT 1770)
  • Akkadian{uru}Ta-aḫ-n[a-k]a, Amarna, EA 248:14 (RGTC 12/2, 281, s.v. *Taʿannaku)
  • EgyptianTʿnk in the Thutmose III list, Urk IV 650:10 (RGTC 12/2, 281)

Attestations2 cited

  1. HT Wc 3004TA-NI-KA SE
  2. HT Wc 3005TA-NI-KA SE

Commentary

HT Wc 3004 and HT Wc 3005, two roundels by one scribe, each reading TA-NI-KA with SE (GORILA II 73): one context. Taanach is Hebrew Taʿnak (HALOT 1770; Josh 12:21; 17:11; 21:25; Judg 1:27) and Amarna URU Taḫnaka, EA 248:14, ‘perhaps biblical Taanach’ (Moran 1992, index). The name is a taqtal of ʿ-n-k, Arabic ʿanak ‘closure of a door’ (Boehmer, apud HALOT 1769, which calls it questionable). ʿ is unwritten, NI writes the a, and a Canaanite town on Haghia Triada roundels is unexplained. Rival: a local personal name.

On the 3D inscriptions

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

Linear A Lexicon