# PA-NU-QE (Panūq)

> personal name, 'Pampered'; rival Amorite Banuq

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

- Reading: Panūq
- 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: Zakros
- Lexicon: [PA-NU-QE](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/PA-NU-QE/index.md>)

## Commentary

ZA 14 .4 PA-NU-QE 2, a recipient (GORILA III 181). Panūq 'Pampered', √p-n-q (Heb. pānaq, BDB 819). Rival: Amorite Banuq, BA-NU-KU-UM (Gelb no. 1132). One witness.

## Attestations

- [ZA 14](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/ZA14/index.md>)

## References

- BDB: Brown, Francis; Driver, S. R.; Briggs, Charles A. (1907), A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament, with an Appendix Containing the Biblical Aramaic. Houghton Mifflin Company
- GORILA III: Godart, Louis; Olivier, Jean-Pierre (1976), Recueil des inscriptions en linéaire A, volume 3: Tablettes, nodules et rondelles édités en 1975 et 1976 (GORILA III). École française d'Athènes (Études crétoises XXI, 3); Librairie orientaliste Paul Geuthner, Paris

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