Personal name · Semitic
A-NA-NU-SI-JA-SE
gracious (personal name), in the vessel-label form -SI-JA-SE
- Reading
- Ḥanānu
- Type
- Personal name Speculative
- Language
- Semitic Speculative
- Sites
- Haghia Triada
- Attestations
- 1
- Lexicon
- A-NA-NU
Commentary
HT Zb 159, painted on a pithos and broken after SE: the owner’s name with the vessel-label ending -SI-JA-SE. Ugarit Ḫananu (Kinlaw 1967, 55); Amorite Ḥanan- (Gelb 1980, nos. 475–478). Rival: ʿAnānu ‘cloud’.
Compared forms
From the lexicon entry A-NA-NU.
- Amorite A-NA-NU-UM-DINGIR, read ḤANAN-UM+ʾIL (Gelb 1980, Add. 476a), and Ḥanan-a, Ḥanan-at-um, Ḥanan-im (Gelb, AS 21, nos. 475–478); Ugarit Ḫananu (Kinlaw 1967, 55); biblical PN חָנָן (Ḥānān, Neh 10:27; HALOT 335); rival: Hebrew עָנָן (ʿānān) ‘cloud’, biblical PN עָנָן (ʿĀnān, Neh 10:27; HALOT 858)