/tanidi(ya)-/

This lexeme is attested twice in a single inscription from Tell Ahmar, dating to the late 10^th or early 9^th century BCE.

[A.P.]

acc. sg.	/tanidin/	(FEMINA-PURUS.INFRA)ta-ni-ti-na	TELL AHMAR 1, §24 (Tell Ahmar)
		FE[MINA]	TELL AHMAR 1, §29 (Tell Ahmar)

Even though the word appears only twice and within the same text, its semantics are clear. The meaning was first suggested by Hawkins 1978a:115 on the basis of the context and found immediate acceptance among scholars, see e.g. Starke 1990a:207 and Melchert 1997d:48, cf. also Hutter 2003a:258. The clearer context occurs at TELL AHMAR 1, §24: *a-[mi-pa-wa/i]-mi-i-tú (“*314”)ka-pi-la-li-na (FILIA)tú-wa/i-tara/i-na (FEMINA.PURUS.INFRA)ta-ni-ti-na i-zi-i-wa/i-i, approx. /ammin=ba=wa=mi=du kappilallin tuwatrin tanidin izziwi/, meaning ‘I myself (will) make m[y] enemy’s daughter a hierodule for him (scil. the storm-god)’ (cf. Hawkins 2000a:241).

[AH.B.]

Evidently a common gender, this noun is probably an adjectival derivation with /-i(ya)-/, subsequently substantivized, from the neuter noun /tanid-/ ‘stele, installation’; this derivational path has been assumed for CLuw. daniti(ya)- ‘(a kind of priestess)’, see Melchert 1997d:48. The phonological form would be /tanidi(ya)-/ or already shortened to /tanid(i)-/, although only further paradigmatic evidence can prove that.

[AH.B.]

This lexeme is attested in a variety of Hittite texts, i.e. in a text concerning the cult of Išḫara (CTH 641), a cult inventory (CTH 528) and fragments of various genres (CTH 590: dream and vow fragments, CTH 582: oracle fragments, CTH 470: ritual fragments, CTH 832: various fragments).

[O.B.]

nom. sg.	MUNUSda-a-ni-ti-iš	KUB 40.2 rev. 35	(CTH 641, NS)
	MUNUSda-ni-ti-iš	KUB 56.19 ii 15	(CTH 590, NS)
		KUB 56.19 ii 16	(CTH 590, NS)
	MUNUSda-ni-te-is	KUB 54.69 obv. 6’	(CTH 528, LNS)
	MUNUSta-ni-ti-is	KBo 44.220 i 12’	(CTH 582, NS)
acc. sg.	MUNUSda-ni-ti-in	KUB 56.19 ii 27	(CTH 590, NS)
dat./loc. sg.	MUNUSda-a-ni-ti	KUB 40.2 obv. 39’	(CTH 641, NS)
	MUNUSta-ni-i-ti	Bo 4708, 9’	(CTH 832, NS)
		KUB 40.2 obv. 40’	(CTH 641, NS)
stem form	MUNUSta-ni-i-ti	KBo 2.20 i 1	(CTH 470, NS)

The forms listed as dat./loc. sg. are preceded by the akkadogram ANA ‘for, to’. The stem form is preceded by UMMA ‘as follows’.

[O.B.]

All forms have been checked against the Konkordanz (Mainzer Fotoarchiv).

[O.B.]

Starke 1990a:206f. provides a comprehensive analysis into the meaning of Luw. dāniti(ya)-. On KUB 40.2 rev. 35, the word is mentioned among various titles of religious officiants. Moreover, on KUB 56.19 ii 15f. and 27, a dāniti(ya)- is construed as being ‘for the Storm-God’. On the basis of these usages, it is most reasonable to assume that dāniti(ya)- refers to a type of priestess (female gender is assured by the ubiquitous determinative MUNUS). This meaning is likewise assumed in HEGT/1:106, CLL:205,Melchert 1997d:48f. and Hutter 2003a:258. Further supporting evidence is available in the HLuw. cognate /tanid(i)-/ ‘hierodule’.

[O.B.]

Luw. dāniti(ya)- is a substantivized adjective in -i(ya)-, formed to a noun dānit- ‘(cult object)’ (Starke 1990a:206, Melchert 1997d:48).

For the dubious existence of an ultimate base *dān- ‘(type of ritual)’ cited in Starke 1990a:206 and CLL:204, see Stem under CLuw. tānit-.

[O.B.]

This lexeme is assumed to be Luwian on account of being derived from a Luwian base with Luwian morphology and its HLuw. cognate (thus also in Starke 1990a:205ff.,CLL:205, Hutter 2003a:258).

[O.B.]

For the derivational base, see CLuw. dānit-.