God or goddess · Semitic
A-DI-KI-TE-TE
O Diktaean (f.), the feminine nisbe of Dikte
- Reading
- ʾa-Diqqitīt
- Type
- God or goddess Probable
- Language
- Semitic Probable
- Sites
- Palaikastro
- Attestations
- 1
- Lexicon
- A-DI-KI-TE-TE
Commentary
PK Za 11 A-DI-KI-TE-TE-[··]-RE, one group across sides a and b, restored -[DU-PU₂]-RE from PK Za 15 JA-DI-KI-TE-TE-DU-PU₂-RE and PK Za 8 JA-DI-KI-TE-TE-*307-PU₂-RE (GORILA IV 34). The Palaikastro form of JA-DI-KI-TU. See the lexicon entry. One witness.
Compared forms
From the lexicon entry A-DI-KI-TE-TE.
- Ugaritic𐎄𐎖𐎚dqtdqt ‘female head of small cattle for sacrifice’, a ewe or she-goat (Gordon UT §19.695, cited by Astour 1966, 283 n. 74); DN dqt, KTU 1.102:8 (Astour 1966, 283–84; DULAT 276)
- Hebrewשְׂעִירָהcf. śəʿîrāhcf. śəʿîrāh (שְׂעִירָה) ‘she-goat’ and śəʿîrîm (שְׂעִירִים) ‘goat-demons’ (Lev 17:7, 2 Chr 11:15)