Personal name · Semitic
DU-DA-MA
Beloved (personal name, √d-w-d + -ma); rival the Aegean name of the Keftiu board and Linear B di-du-me
- Reading
- Dūdāma
- Type
- Personal name Candidate
- Language
- Semitic Candidate
- Sites
- Haghia Triada
- Attestations
- 1
- Lexicon
- DU-DA-MA
Commentary
Dūdāma ‘Beloved’, √d-w-d + -ma, as the Amorite DA-DU-MA (Gelb 1980, no. 1433); the d-d-m name of the Keftiu board and Linear B di-du-me.
Compared forms
From the lexicon entry DU-DA-MA.
- Hebrewdûdāʾîmdûdāʾîm ‘mandrakes, love-apples’ (Gen 30:14; Song 7:14), the u-ā form of √d-w-d
- AmoriteDAWD-U*MA, DA-DU-MA (Gelb 1980, no. 1433); DAWD-A (no. 1413)
- Egyptian{d-j}-d-ȝ-d-ȝ-m{a}, an ‘Aegean’ beneficiary of a wine account, BM EA 5647 v. I 3a (Dautais & Gabolde 2025, 14–15)
- Linear Bdi-du-me (KN L 588), di-du-mo (KN X 5751, MY Oe 129) (Dautais & Gabolde 2025, Table 1)