God or goddess · Semitic
I-RA₂
goddess; rival ʾila 'god'
- Reading
- ʾilā(t)
- Type
- God or goddess Speculative
- Language
- Semitic Speculative
- Sites
- Haghia Triada
- Attestations
- 8
- Lexicon
- I-RA₂
Commentary
Eight sealings, two hands, one deposit (Portico 11 and Room 13): one context. Rival: Amorite ila, *ilāh ‘god’ (Huffmon 1965, 165).
Compared forms
From the lexicon entry I-RA₂.
- Akkadianilatilat ‘goddess’
- Ugariticiltilt ‘goddess’
- Hebrewʾēlatʾēlat (construct) ‘goddess of’
- Arabicʾilāhatʾilāhat ‘goddess’
- Amorite (rival)ila, *ilāh ‘god’ (Huffmon 1965, 165)