# A-ZU-RA (ʾAṯirat)

> Athirat (divine name: the Goddess)

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

- Reading: ʾAṯirat
- Type: God or goddess; 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: Knossos
- Lexicon: [A-ZU-RA](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/A-ZU-RA/index.md>)

## 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.

## Attestations

- [KN Zc 7](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/KNZc7/index.md>)

## References

- EA: Moran, William L. (1992), The Amarna Letters. Johns Hopkins University Press

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