# RI-KA-TA (Likata)

> Lyktos (place name); compare Egyptian Ri-ka-ta

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

- Reading: Likata
- Type: Place; confidence Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once.
- Language: Aegean substrate; confidence Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once.
- Sites: Haghia Triada
- Lexicon: [RI-KA-TA](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/RI-KA-TA/index.md>)

## 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.

## Attestations

- [HT 146](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT146/index.md>)

## References

- Astour, Michael C. (1966), Aegean Place-Names in an Egyptian Inscription. American Journal of Archaeology,70.4,313–317

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