# A-NA-NU-SI-JA-SE (Ḥanānu)

> gracious (personal name), in the vessel-label form -SI-JA-SE

A name in the Linear A onomasticon. The reading is a proposal and carries its tier.

- Reading: Ḥanānu
- Type: Personal name; confidence Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once.
- Language: Semitic; confidence Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once.
- Sites: Haghia Triada
- Lexicon: [A-NA-NU](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/A-NA-NU/index.md>)

## 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'.

## Attestations

- [HT Zb 159](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HTZb159/index.md>)

## References

- AS 21: Gelb, Ignace J. (1980), Computer-aided Analysis of Amorite. Assyriological Studies 21,The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago
- Kinlaw, Dennis F. (1967), A Study of the Personal Names in the Akkadian Texts from Ugarit. Brandeis University, Department of Mediterranean Studies (Ph.D. dissertation)

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