# TI-NI-TA (Tinitu)

> Tinit (goddess, = Phoenician Tanit)

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

- Reading: Tinitu
- Confidence: Confirmed. The function is fixed inside the corpus (position, arithmetic, commodity signs). The etymology may still be a proposal.
- Root: [\*tinnīt-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/2967/index.md>) 'Tanit/Tinit (Punic goddess, face of Baal)'
- Kind: Divine
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: TI (ti) · NI (ni) · TA (ta)
- Rank: #9 of the top 100
- First proposed by Cyrus H. Gordon, Evidence for the Minoan Language (1966), §129

## Compared forms

- Phoenician: 𐤕𐤍𐤕 *tnt* — tnt 'Tanit' (Sarepta, KAI 285, 7th c. BCE: dedication to Tanit-Astarte)
- Punic: *tnt* — tnt 'Tinnit' (Carthage stelae: lrbt ltnt pn bʿl 'to the Lady Tinnit, face of Baal')
- Punic in Greek letters: Θινιθ-Φανεβαλ, Θεννειθ-Φενηβαλ 'Tinnit-Phanebal' (Krahmalkov 2000, 495); Θινιθ-Φανεβαλ on the El-Hofra stele EH 1.1/5 (ibid., 126)

## Attestations

- [HT 27a](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT27a/index.md>): TI-NI-TA \*307 — Tinit (goddess), heading

## Commentary

HT 27a: TI-NI-TA directly before *307 DUBUR 'sanctuary', the goddess with her sanctuary, as Linear B Potnia Daboritu. The variant TA-NA-TI is commoner, four attestations (HT 7a, HT 10b, HT 49a, HT 98a). Punic in Greek letters writes Θινιθ, i–i, on the El-Hofra stele EH 1 (Krahmalkov 2000, 126), beside Θεννειθ (ibid., 495), against the conventional 'Tanit': the vowels of TI-NI-TA, a millennium later. Rival: a Berber origin for Tanit, on the t…t feminine of Tamazight names, against which an LM I attestation a millennium before Carthage stands. See TI-NI-TA *307.

## Same root

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

## In the onomasticon

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

## References

- Reading: Gordon 1966; Krahmalkov 2000
- KAI: Donner, Herbert; Röllig, Wolfgang (2002), Kanaanäische und aramäische Inschriften. Band 1. Harrassowitz
- Gordon, Cyrus H. (1966), Evidence for the Minoan Language. Ventnor Publishers,68
- Krahmalkov: Krahmalkov, Charles R. (2000), A Phoenician-Punic Dictionary. Peeters (Leuven)

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