Place · Aegean substrate
RI-KA-TA
Lyktos (place name); compare Egyptian Ri-ka-ta
- Reading
- Likata
- Type
- Place Speculative
- Language
- Aegean substrate Speculative
- Sites
- Haghia Triada
- Attestations
- 1
- Lexicon
- RI-KA-TA
Commentary
Egyptian Ri-ka-ta, Kom el-Hetan list of Amenhotep III, beside the names read as Amnisos and Knossos; Lyktos (Astour 1966, 317). The -ata ending matches the Egyptian form, a Semitic feminine in status absolutus, which Astour puts down to transmission through the Syrian coast; language unknown. See the lexicon entry.
Compared forms
From the lexicon entry RI-KA-TA.
- Egyptianrkt on the Kom el-Hetan Aegean list of Amenhotep III, oval 12, identified with Lyktos (Cline and Stannish 2011, 9–10)
- Linear Bru-ki-to, the town, KN Da 1288, Da 1289, Db 1279 and others