# A-RE-SA-NA (ʾAriš-ān)

> '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

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

- Reading: ʾAriš-ān
- Type: Personal name; confidence Candidate. A comparison worth testing; the evidence is thin or the word is rare.
- Language: Semitic; confidence Candidate. A comparison worth testing; the evidence is thin or the word is rare.
- Sites: Thera
- Lexicon: [A-RE-SA-NA](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/A-RE-SA-NA/index.md>)

## 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.

## Outside the corpus

am_gelb_n_02190

## Attestations

- [THE Zb 2](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/THEZb2/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

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