# U-TA₂ (Uta)

> Uta, personal name heading the fig (NI) entry on HT 103; rival the town Uda

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

- Reading: Uta
- Confidence: Candidate. A comparison worth testing; the evidence is thin or the word is rare.
- Kind: Administrative
- Language: Aegean, Aegean substrate
- Signs: U (u) · TA₂ (ta₂)

## Attestations

- [HT 103](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT103/index.md>): U-TA₂ NI 40 — personal name heading the fig entry; rival the town Uda

## Commentary

HT 103 .1 U-TA₂ · NI 40, the opening group, before the divider and the fig entry; DA-KU-SE-NE, *188, DA-KU-NA and KI-RA follow. The heading slot fits an entity, institution, recipient or place named over the figs. Uta is a Neo-Assyrian personal name, ᵐu₂-ta-a (SAA 6 277). Rival: Uda, an Anatolian town near Firaktin, named at Ugarit (dIŠKUR ᵘʳᵘU-da, RS 17.338+; RGTC 12/2, 304), Hittite Uta. One attestation.

## In the onomasticon

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

## References

- Reading: di Mino; GORILA I 170–171; RGTC 12/2
- 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
- RGTC 12/2: Belmonte Marín, Juan Antonio (2001), Die Orts- und Gewässernamen der Texte aus Syrien im 2. Jt. v. Chr.. Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag, Wiesbaden (Répertoire Géographique des Textes Cunéiformes 12/2; Beihefte zum Tübinger Atlas des Vorderen Orients B 7/12/2)

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