# DA-TU (ḏātu)

> She of (…), a woman named by her house (personal name; feminine of ḏū 'he of'); rival daṯʾu 'spring pasture'

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

- Reading: ḏātu
- 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: Haghia Triada
- Lexicon: [DA-TU](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/DA-TU/index.md>)

## Commentary

HT 123+124a .6 DA-TU OLIV 15, the fourth olive-and-oil holder (GORILA I 211). ḏātu: the feminine of ḏū 'he of', Ugaritic dt (DULAT 252), Arabic ḏātu (Lane 984), Sabaic PNf ḏt + clan name (Sabaweb lemma 1281). Rival: daṯʾu 'spring pasture' (CAD D 163–164). See the lexicon entry.

## Attestations

- [HT 123+124a](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT123~2B124a/index.md>)

## References

- CAD D: Oriental Institute (A. Leo Oppenheim, ed.) (1959), The Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, vol. D. 
- 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
- Lane: Lane, Edward William (1863), An Arabic-English Lexicon. Williams and Norgate, London
- Sabaweb: Nebes, Norbert (director); Multhoff, Anne (lexical editor) (2024), Sabaweb: Belegwörterbuch der sabäischen Sprache (Sabaic Online Dictionary). Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena (sabaweb.uni-jena.de); DFG NE 371/10
- GORILA I: Godart, Louis; Olivier, Jean-Pierre (1976), Recueil des inscriptions en linéaire A, volume 1: Tablettes éditées avant 1970 (GORILA I). École française d'Athènes (Études crétoises XXI, 1); Librairie orientaliste Paul Geuthner, Paris

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