Personal name · Semitic

KI-KI-NA

Kikkina, recipient or named administrative entity

Reading
Kikkina
Type
Personal name Candidate
Language
Semitic Candidate
Sites
Haghia Triada
Attestations
1
Lexicon
KI-KI-NA

Commentary

HT88 places the name after the NI fig logogram and before 7. Gelb’s Amorite onomasticon repeatedly writes KIKKIN-I/U/UM as KI-IK-KI-NI, KI-IK-KI-NU and KI-(IK)-KI-NU-UM. The Ugaritic ‘pot’ comparison fails because the vessel word is kknt, with final -t; Ugaritic kkn is itself a personal name of uncertain etymology.

Compared forms

From the lexicon entry KI-KI-NA.

  • AmoriteKIKKIN-I (KI-IK-KI-NI), KIKKIN-U (KI-IK-KI-NU), KIKKIN-UM (KI-IK-KI-NUM), with KI-KI-NU-UM and KI-IK-KI-NI-IM variants
  • Ugaritickkn, personal name of uncertain etymology; distinct kknt ‘pot/vessel’ has final -t
  • EblaiteGi-gi-na, a singer (nar) from Mari (Prosopography of Ebla, list nar)
  • Old BabylonianKi-ki-nu-um at Sippar (de Boer 2014, 369)
Linear A Lexicon