TE-*301

Fig (personal name); a recipient in allocation lists

𐘃TEAB0446 entries𐙕*301*30111 entries
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Reading
Tēnā
Confidence
Candidate
Root
*tiʾin- ‘fig-tree’
Kind
Personal name
Language
Semitic
Rank
#98 of the top 100

Compared forms

  • Hebrewתְּאֵנָהtəʾēnāhtəʾēnāh (תְּאֵנָה) ‘fig tree’ (HALOT 1675); Mishnaic tīnā
  • Aramaictyntyn ‘fig’
  • Akkadiantittu (tiʾittu), pl. tinātu ‘fig’; Old Assyrian ‘Month of Figs’ (CAD T 435)
  • Arabictīntīn ‘fig’
  • UgaritPÈŠ = ti-[n]a-tu₄ tiʔnat ‘fig’ (GlOS 2, 290)
  • EblaiteGIŠ.PÈŠ = ti-ì-tum ‘fig (tree)’ (GlOS 2, 290)

Attestations2 cited

  1. HT 8aTE-*301 2'Fig', personal name; recipient of KI-oil 2
  2. HT 98aTE-*301 ³⁄₄'Fig', personal name; recipient of ¾

Commentary

A recipient on both tablets: HT 8a TE-*301 2 in the OLE+KI list between PA 3½ and QA-*310-I ¾ (QA-*310-I receives again on HT 8b); HT 98a TE-*301 ¾ between DI-RE-DI-NA and RO-KE. Tēnā ‘Fig’: TE-*301 writes the shape of Hebrew təʾēnāh ‘fig’ with the ʾ lost, as in Judaic Aramaic tēnəṯā (HALOT 1675). A fruit-tree name as a personal name, as Hebrew Tamar ‘date palm’ (HALOT 1756) and Ugaritic tmr (DULAT 859). Weak point: *301 = na is a proposed value, and no other fig-name is attested. Two attestations. See TI.

On the 3D inscriptions

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

Linear A Lexicon