Personal name · Semitic
PA-TA-NE
personal name, 'Viper'; rival Ptah-theophoric
- Reading
- Patne
- Type
- Personal name Candidate
- Language
- Semitic Candidate
- Sites
- Haghia Triada
- Attestations
- 3
- Lexicon
- PA-TA-NE
Commentary
*patn- ‘viper’ (Heb. peten, Syr. patnā), whence Greek Πύθων (Rendsburg 2026, 208). Rival: Egyptian Ptah + -ānu.
Compared forms
From the lexicon entry PA-TA-NE.
- Hebrewפֶּתֶןpetenpeten (פֶּתֶן) ‘horned viper’
- Syriacpatnāpatnā ‘viper, asp’
- Ugaritic𐎁𐎘𐎐bṯnbṯn ‘serpent’ (KTU 1.5 I 1–2)
- Aramaicptnptn ‘snake’, source of Heb. peten (Rendsburg 2026, 207–208)
- GreekΠύθωνΠύθων ‘Python’, from a Semitic form akin to Heb.-Aram. ptn (Rendsburg 2026, 208)