# A-TI-RU (ʿAttiru)

> ʿAttiru, personal name, the nisbe 'man of ʿAṯtar'; rival ʿatīru 'entreated'

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

- Reading: ʿAttiru
- 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-RU](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/A-TI-RU/index.md>)

## Commentary

ZA 4a, a roster entry of 4 before JA-PA. ʿAttiru: ʿAṯtar with ṯt > tt, as Amorite [A]t-ta-ri-ša-du-u[q] (Huffmon 1965, 173), or the nisbe ʿAttirī 'man of ʿAṯtar', which the roster slot favours; geminate unwritten, ʿayin on the plain vowel sign. Not ʿAštar: the ṯ > š merger is later. Rival: ʿatīru 'entreated' (√ʿ-t-r).

## Outside the corpus

ug_dulat_0229

## Attestations

- [ZA 4a](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/ZA4a/index.md>)

## References

- APNM: Huffmon, Herbert B. (1965), Amorite Personal Names in the Mari Texts: A Structural and Lexical Study. The Johns Hopkins Press, Baltimore

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