Personal name · Semitic

A-RE-SA-NA

'The Requested One'—votive birth-name from √ʾ-r-š "to request, desire" + hypocoristic -ān; the child asked of the goddess, the name a receipt

Reading
ʾAriš-ān
Type
Personal name Candidate
Language
Semitic Candidate
Sites
Thera
Attestations
1
Lexicon
A-RE-SA-NA

Commentary

THE Zb 2, the sole word on an Akrotiri clay vessel, in the owner’s or dedicant’s slot. ʾAriš-ān ‘the requested one’, √ʾ-r-š ‘to request’ with hypocoristic -ān; the Amorite name ʾARIŚ-AN, ḪA-RI-ŠA-AN (Gelb, AS 21, no. 2190), -NA writing its closing n. RE writes ri, as KI-RE-TA₂ beside KI-RI-TA₂. One attestation.

Compared forms

From the lexicon entry A-RE-SA-NA.

  • AmoriteʾARIŚ-AN, ḪA-RI-ŠA-AN (Gelb AS 21 §6 Index of Names no. 2190), A-ru-si-AN (Huffmon APNM p. 22)
  • Ugariticʾršʾrš ‘to request, wish, demand, claim’ (CUC); irš ‘demand’ (DULAT)
  • Akkadianerēšuerēšu ‘to request’—the Erišti-DN class (‘Requested-of-DN’, e.g. Erišti-Aya) among the commonest OB female names
  • Safaiticʾrš ×12 + ʾršt ×11 + ʾršn—the exact shape ʾAriš-ān (Harding 1971 p. 37)
  • Hebrewʾărešetʾărešet ‘request’ (Ps 21:3, hapax); naming-motif parallel Šāʾûl ‘Asked-For’ and Hannah’s Samuel etymology (1 Sam 1:20)

Outside the corpus

am_gelb_n_02190

Linear A Lexicon