Title · Semitic
SI-KI-NE
stewardess or female administrator; compare masculine prefect/commissioner
- Reading
- Sikinet
- Type
- Title Candidate
- Language
- Semitic Candidate
- Sites
- Haghia Triada
- Attestations
- 1
- Lexicon
- SI-KI-NE
Commentary
Administrative title rather than a demonstrated theonym. Sikinet /šikinēt/ matches SI-KI-NE syllable for syllable if feminine final /t/ is unwritten. Compare Ugaritic šknt ‘female administrator, stewardess,’ later Akkadian šakintu/šakinte, and masculine Ugaritic sākinu and Amarna sōkinu ‘prefect/commissioner.’
Compared forms
From the lexicon entry SI-KI-NE.