God or goddess · Semitic

A-TA-NA-JE

My Giver / My Athena—1cs possessive on divine epithet (√y-t-n 'to give' + -ya 'my')

Reading
ʾatanāya
Type
God or goddess Candidate
Language
Semitic Candidate
Sites
Thera
Attestations
1
Lexicon
A-TA-NA-JE

Commentary

THE Zb 6, the only word on a Theran clay vessel: a votive dedication. -JE writes the 1cs possessive -ya, as in PU₂-RE-JA burē(t)yā ‘my Creatress’, on the A-TA-NA paradigm with feminine A-TA-NA-TE at Zakros: ʾatanāya ‘My Giver’.

Compared forms

From the lexicon entry A-TA-NA-JE.

  • Linear Ba-ta-na-po-ti-ni-ja, KN V 52.1, beside e-na-wa-ri-jo, pa-ja-wo-ne, po-se-da[-o-ne] (DMic I, s.v.)—Athena Potnia
  • GreekἈθάνα (Doric), Ἀθήνη (Ionic/Attic)—pre-Greek, no IE etymology (Beekes 2010)
  • Ugaritic𐎊𐎚𐎐ytnytn ‘give’; names ytn Yatanu, mlkytn Milki-Yatanu (Kinlaw 1967, 135, 81), bʿltn (GlOS 2, 78); 1cs possessive -y: ʾaby ‘my father,’ ʾumy ‘my mother’ (Huehnergard 2012)
  • Alalakhna-di-na nādinna-di-na nādin ‘giver’, a name (GlOS 2, 78)
Linear A Lexicon