# PA-TA-DA (Patada)

> personal name; Egyptian Ptḥ-dj(⸗f) 'Ptah gives'; rival Hurrian pṭḏ (Ugarit)

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

- Reading: Patada
- Type: Personal name; confidence Candidate. A comparison worth testing; the evidence is thin or the word is rare.
- Language: Egyptian; confidence Candidate. A comparison worth testing; the evidence is thin or the word is rare.
- Sites: Phaistos, Haghia Triada
- Lexicon: [PA-TA-DA](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/PA-TA-DA/index.md>)

## Commentary

Egyptian ptḥ-dj⸗f 'Ptah gives', a man's name under Thutmose IV–Amenhotep III (PNM v6). Rival: Hurrian pṭḏ, a man at Ugarit (DULAT 676). See the lexicon entry.

## Attestations

- [PH(?) 31a](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/PH(~3F)31a/index.md>)
- [HT Zb 160](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HTZb160/index.md>)

## References

- DULAT: del Olmo Lete, Gregorio; Sanmartín, Joaquín (2015), A Dictionary of the Ugaritic Language in the Alphabetic Tradition. Brill, Leiden/Boston (Handbook of Oriental Studies 1/112); Third Revised Edition, tr. and ed. Wilfred G.E. Watson; 2 parts
- PNM: Ilin-Tomich, Alexander (2025), Persons and Names of the Middle Kingdom (PNM), version 6. Zenodo (Freie Universität Berlin); CC BY 4.0

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