Stone vessel · Iouktas
IO Za 6
- Site
- Iouktas
- Object
- Stone vessel
- Period
- LMIA
- Scribe
- —
- Findspot
- —
- Edition
- GORILA V
Text1 line
TranslationCandidate
May you (f.) answer us, my Anat, Breast-Who-Gives-Drink, in righteousness.
Word by word5 words
- TA-NA-I-*301-U-TI-NUtan-ʿinā-u-tī-n(u)May you (f.) answer usProbable
- I-NA-TA-IʿInatīmy Anat—She Who AnswersCandidate
- ZU-DIṯudīBreast (first member of a divine epithet)Probable
- SI-KAšiqāWho Gives Drink (second member of a divine epithet)Candidate
- JA-SA-SA-RA-MEyaššaramuprightly (accusative -am, √y-š-r)Confirmed
Commentary
The stone vessel is chipped, but the written sequence is complete: all three groups and their dividers survive, with no lacuna inside I-NA-TA-I-ZU-DI-SI-KA. The middle group is tentatively segmented I-NA-TA-I + ZU-DI + SI-KA, a theonym followed by a compound epithet. Ugaritic supplies the orthographic controls: three vowel-conditioned aleph signs (Huehnergard 2012, 21), syllabic ᵈa-na-tu₄ = /ʿanatu/, and ša-i = /šāʿi/ (Huehnergard 2008, 18 n. 78, 208, 249). Together these permit—but do not prove—a laryngeal-bearing initial I; final I is read as 1cs -ī. Ugaritic btlt ʿnt ‘the young woman Anat’ (KTU 1.3 III 11) and Middle Babylonian Ištar-ṣēri provide deity-plus-epithet controls. The rival segmentation with bare I-NA as a presentative remains possible but is less economical in this complete 2fs-verb + addressee context.