# A-TI-KA (ʿAtīqa)

> personal name, 'enduring'; compare Linear B a-ti-ka

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

- Reading: ʿAtīqa
- 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: Zakros
- Lexicon: [A-TI-KA](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/A-TI-KA/index.md>)

## Commentary

First word on the roundel, before A-DU-KO 2, the numeral read by Perna and Anastasiadou over GORILA's erased MI (Anastasiadou 2026, 37–39). Ugaritic ʿtq "durable" (DULAT 189); Linear B a-ti-ka, a man at Knossos (DMic I 119). See the lexicon entry.

## Attestations

- [ZA Wc 2](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/ZAWc2/index.md>)

## References

- DMic I: Aura Jorro, Francisco, Diccionario Micénico, vol. I (CSIC 1985). 
- DULAT: del Olmo Lete, Gregorio; Sanmartín, Joaquín (2015), A Dictionary of the Ugaritic Language in the Alphabetic Tradition. Brill, Leiden/Boston (Handbook of Oriental Studies 1/112); Third Revised Edition, tr. and ed. Wilfred G.E. Watson; 2 parts
- Anastasiadou, Maria (2026), Names on roundels? The “special” case of Neo-Palatial roundels with incised numerals. In E. Salgarella & V. Petrakis (eds.), The Wor(l)ds of Linear A, AURA Supplement 15, Department of History and Archaeology, NKUA, Athens, pp. 35–42

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