God or goddess · Semitic

I-NA-TA-I-ZU-DI-SI-KA

my Anat, Breast-Who-Gives-Drink—theonym plus compound divine epithet

Reading
ʿInatī ṯudī-šiqā
Type
God or goddess Speculative
Language
Semitic Speculative
Sites
Iouktas
Attestations
1
Lexicon
I-NA-TA-I-ZU-DI-SI-KA

Commentary

IO Za 6, position 2 of the libation formula, complete and undivided: I-NA-TA-I ʿInatī ‘my Anat’ + ZU-DI ṯudī ‘breast’ + SI-KA šiqā ‘she who gives drink’. Initial I carries ʿ, as syllabic Ugaritic writes ᵈa-na-tu₄ for /ʿanatu/ and ša-i for /šāʿi/ (Huehnergard 2008, 18 n. 78, 208, 249). Ugaritic gives Anat the title ṯd lʾimm ‘the breast of the people’ (KTU 1.13:19). See the lexicon entry.

Compared forms

From the lexicon entry I-NA-TA-I-ZU-DI-SI-KA.

  • Ugaritic𐎘𐎄ṯdṯd "breast" (KTU 1.23: b-ṯd aṯrt ‘at the breast of Athirat’; yiṯdyn ‘they suckle’)
  • Hebrewšādšād "breast" (KB 1316); hišqā (הִשְׁקָה) "to give drink" (√š-q-y, HALOT 1640)
  • Arabicṯadyṯady "breast" (BK 2 220); saqā "to water, give drink" (BK 1 1076)
  • Akkadianšaqûšaqû "to give to drink, to irrigate" (CAD Š2 20)
Linear A Lexicon