Cognate with Ancient Greek ฮฮตฯฯฮฎฮฝฮท (Messแธnฤ).
๐๐ผ๐ (me-za-na)
- a place, Messene
c. 1200 BCE (LH IIIB2/LH IIIC), Pylos CN 3โ[1]:๐๐๐๐ฏ ๐๐ผ๐
๐๐ฉ๐๐ณ๐ฉ ๐๐น๐๐ธ ๐ฆ๐- jo-i-je-si me-za-na
e-re-u-te-re di-wi-je-we qo-o - [They send(?)] from Messene,
to inspector [Di-wi-je-we].dat.sg, bulls
c. 1200 BCE (LH IIIB2/LH IIIC), Pylos SH 736โ[2]:๐ต๐จ๐ ๐๐๐๐ต ๐๐ ๐๐ผ๐ ๐บ๐- to-ra-ke a-me-ja-to o-pa me-za-na wo-ke
- breastplates, at/from the workshop of [A-me-ja-to].gen.sg, in the settlement of Messene.gen.sg
- (basic translation of PY Cn 3:) Nikoloudis, Stavroula (2008) โBulls and Belonging: Another Look at PY Cn 3โ, in Dais. The Aegean Feast (Aegaeum; 29)