# ZU-\*301 (ṯannān)

> chariot soldiers, archers (a troop drawing rations); rival a name ZU-\*301-SE-DE

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

- Reading: ṯannān
- Confidence: Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once.
- Root: [\*ṯanann-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/4113/index.md>) 'archer'
- Kind: Personnel
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: ZU (zu) · \*301

## Compared forms

- Ugaritic: ṯnn, pl. ṯnnm, syll. LÚ ša-na-ni, LÚ ša-na-nu-ma; rb ṯnnm 'chief archer' (DULAT 909)
- Akkadian: *šanannu* — šanannu 'archer(?)', MB Alalakh and Ras Shamra: 1006 ERÍN.MEŠ ša-na-an-nu (Wiseman, Alalakh 183:2); sheep belonging to the LÚ.MEŠ ša-na-an-ni-e (Alalakh 352:6); Hurrian pl. LÚ.MEŠ ša-na-nu-ḫē (Alalakh 350:9) (CAD Š/1 366)
- Egyptian: snny, *ṯannānu 'chariot soldier, archer' (Hoch 1994, 261, no. 371)

## Attestations

- [ARKH 2](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/ARKH2/index.md>): ZU-\*301-SE-DE-\*21F-\*118 6

## Commentary

ARKH 2 .3–4 ZU-*301-SE-DE-*21F-*118 6, read ṯannān ṣēd ḥiṭṭa 'the chariot soldiers: provision of wheat, 6', under SI-DA-TE ṣēdat 'provisions', between A-SI-DA-TO-I 12 and A-SU-PU-WA 4 (GORILA III 6–7). *301 and *21F over erasures, no dividers. SE-DE ṣēd, √ṣ-y-d as SI-DA-TE. Ugarit lists the ṯnnm as a group with named members (KTU 4.68:70; 4.126:4), with a rb ṯnnm (4.382:5). ZU writes ṯ before any vowel or none, as in A-ZU-RA ʾAṯirat. Egyptian snny, 'of the chariotry', takes the arrow determinative (Hoch 1994, 262, no. 371). Alalakh allots sheep to the šanannu as a body (CAD Š/1 366). Weak point: the must list turns to wheat without a logogram; *21F-*118 takes its numeral without one on ZA 14 too (*21F-*118 1). Rival: one name ZU-*301-SE-DE + ḥiṭṭa 6. One witness.

## In the onomasticon

- [ZU-\*301-SE-DE-\*21F-\*118](<https://linear-a.ai/names/ZU-*301-SE-DE-*21F-*118/index.md>): Title, Semitic

## References

- Reading: di Mino; DULAT; CAD; Hoch 1994
- KTU: Dietrich, Manfried; Loretz, Oswald; Sanmartín, Joaquín (2013), Die keilalphabetischen Texte aus Ugarit, Ras Ibn Hani und anderen Orten / The Cuneiform Alphabetic Texts from Ugarit, Ras Ibn Hani and Other Places (KTU³). Ugarit-Verlag, Münster (Alter Orient und Altes Testament 360/1); ISBN 978-3-86835-014-2
- Hoch, James E. (1994), Semitic Words in Egyptian Texts of the New Kingdom and Third Intermediate Period. Princeton University Press
- DULAT: del Olmo Lete, Gregorio; Sanmartín, Joaquín (2015), A Dictionary of the Ugaritic Language in the Alphabetic Tradition. Brill, Leiden/Boston (Handbook of Oriental Studies 1/112); Third Revised Edition, tr. and ed. Wilfred G.E. Watson; 2 parts
- CAD Š/1: Oriental Institute (Erica Reiner, ed.) (1989), The Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, vol. 17, Š, part 1. The Oriental Institute, Chicago
- GORILA III: Godart, Louis; Olivier, Jean-Pierre (1976), Recueil des inscriptions en linéaire A, volume 3: Tablettes, nodules et rondelles édités en 1975 et 1976 (GORILA III). École française d'Athènes (Études crétoises XXI, 3); Librairie orientaliste Paul Geuthner, Paris

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