# PA-TA-NE (Patne)

> personal name, 'Viper'; rival Ptah-theophoric

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

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

## Commentary

*patn- 'viper' (Heb. peten, Syr. patnā), whence Greek Πύθων (Rendsburg 2026, 208). Rival: Egyptian Ptah + -ānu.

## Attestations

- [HT 94b](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT94b/index.md>)
- [HT 122a](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT122a/index.md>)
- [HT Wa 1019](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HTWa1019/index.md>)

## References

- Rendsburg, Gary A. (2026), Across the Mediterranean: Ugaritic Words which Reached Greek and Latin. In Colasuonno, Maria Maddalena; Criscuolo, Alfredo; D'Anna, Luca; Esposito, Raffaele; Lusini, Gianfrancesco; Nicosia, Mara (eds.), Forty Years of Semitic Philology: Studies in Honour of Riccardo Contini, Offered by Friends and Colleagues on the Occasion of His Seventieth Birthday, Volume II,Series Minor CX.2; Serie Orientale Roma n.s. 57.2,UniorPress, Napoli,201–219

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