# TA₂-TA-RE (Tatare)

> personal name (Hurrian); cf. Linear B ta-ta-ro, Mari ᶠTatara

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

- Reading: Tatare
- Confidence: Candidate. A comparison worth testing; the evidence is thin or the word is rare.
- Kind: Personal name
- Language: Hurrian
- Signs: TA₂ (ta₂) · TA (ta) · RE (re)

## Compared forms

- Hurrian: Tatara, ta-da-ra, a woman at Mari, Hurrian with a query (Monti 2017, 302)
- Akkadian: (f) Tadara, ta-da-ra, a musician at Mari (FM IV, 284)
- Linear B: ta-ta-ro, a man on the Knossos roster KN As(1) 607, also KN Pp 498, PY Eb 874, Eo 224, Ep 301

## Attestations

- [PK 1](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/PK1/index.md>): TA₂-TA-RE 1 — personal name (Hurrian?), 1; compare Linear B ta-ta-ro, Mari ᶠTatara

## Commentary

PK 1 .2 TA₂-TA-RE 1, a single-unit entry in a column of names, TA₂ distinct from TA (GORILA I 281). Linear B ta-ta-ro is a man on the Knossos roster KN As(1) 607.2 (VIR 1), also KN Pp 498, Xd 8605 and PY Eb 874, Ep 301.6, Eo 224.7. Final -RE answers Linear B -ro as in A-RA-NA-RE / a-ra-na-ro (KN As 1516), PA-JA-RE / pa-ja-ro (KN As 1519) and NA-DA-RE / no-da-ro (KN As 609), all on the same roster series. Mari ᶠTatara, ta-da-ra, a woman, Hurrian with a query (Sasson 1974, 370; ARM XVI/1, 201; Monti 2017, 302); TA₂-TI-TE Tati-te, Hurrian, two lines below. One attestation.

## In the onomasticon

- [TA₂-TA-RE](<https://linear-a.ai/names/TA~E2~82~82-TA-RE/index.md>): Personal name, Hurrian

## References

- Reading: di Mino; Sasson 1974; Monti 2017
- Sasson, Jack M. (1974), Hurrians and Hurrian Names in the Mari Texts. Ugarit-Forschungen,6,353ff.
- GORILA I: Godart, Louis; Olivier, Jean-Pierre (1976), Recueil des inscriptions en linéaire A, volume 1: Tablettes éditées avant 1970 (GORILA I). École française d'Athènes (Études crétoises XXI, 1); Librairie orientaliste Paul Geuthner, Paris
- Monti, Luciano Esteban (2017), A Systematic Approach to the Hurrian Pantheon: The Onomastic Evidence. PhD dissertation, Università degli Studi di Udine (XXVIII cycle)

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