# RA-TI-SE (Ratis)

> Ratis (Egyptian personal name rdj⸗s, the name RE-DI-SE), 'the one she has given'; rival Safaitic RDS 'Breaker'

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

- Reading: Ratis
- Type: Personal name; confidence Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once.
- Language: Egyptian; confidence Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once.
- Sites: Haghia Triada
- Lexicon: [RA-TI-SE](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/RA-TI-SE/index.md>)

## Commentary

Egyptian rdj⸗s 'the one she has given' (PNM), the name RE-DI-SE, both beside WA-DU-NI-MI; TI for Egyptian d, which Semitic scripts write ṭ (Hoch 1994, 427). Rival: Safaitic RDS (Harding 1971, 275).

## Attestations

- [HT 6b](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT6b/index.md>)

## References

- Harding, G. Lankester (1971), An Index and Concordance of Pre-Islamic Arabian Names and Inscriptions. Near and Middle East Series 8,University of Toronto Press
- Hoch, James E. (1994), Semitic Words in Egyptian Texts of the New Kingdom and Third Intermediate Period. Princeton University Press
- 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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