God or goddess · Semitic
A-ZU-RA
Athirat (divine name: the Goddess)
- Reading
- ʾAṯirat
- Type
- God or goddess Candidate
- Language
- Semitic Candidate
- Sites
- Knossos
- Attestations
- 1
- Lexicon
- A-ZU-RA
Commentary
KN Zc 7, an inked inscription: A-KA-NU-ZA-TI · DU-RA-RE · A-ZU-RA ·, then JA-SA-RA-A-NA-NE. ʾAṯirat, Athirat: ZU writes /ṯ/ with any vowel or none, keeping the interdental that Akkadian Aširat and Hebrew ʾĂšērā have lost; final RA writes the live /a/ of the feminine ending, and the middle vowel is kept, as in Ugaritic ʾaṯrt /ʾaṯiratu/, against the syncopated ᵈaš-ra-tu at Ugarit and aš-ra-tu in EA 60; final -t unwritten. One attestation.
Compared forms
From the lexicon entry A-ZU-RA.
- AkkadianAšratuAšratu ‘the goddess Ašratu’ (HALOT 99)
- Ugaritic𐎀𐎘𐎗𐎚ʾaṯrtʾaṯrt (Athirat) ‘goddess of the sea’ (DULAT 125)
- Hebrewאֲשֵׁרָהʾăšērāʾăšērā (אֲשֵׁרָה) ‘Asherah, goddess/cult pole’ (HALOT 99)
- Phoenician𐤀𐤔𐤓𐤕ʾšrtʾšrt ‘Asherah’ (DNWSI 117)
- Amoriteʔaθeratumʔaθeratum ‘the Favourite, Lucky One’, a-še-ra-tum = DINĜIR.MAḪ (Sanmartín 2026, 140; Hess 2025, 3–4)