ἀδάμμα <Phrygian?; Hellenistic period>
👉 ἀδάμμα or Ἀδάμμα f. – prob. ‘a title of a cult officer (in a temple of Agdistis)’ (IRhamn. 179.4 = CCCA 2 245.4: 1st cent. BC).
⚠ The word occurs in an inscription relating to the temple of Agdistis at Rhamnous (Attica).
🅔 Both the meaning and the etymology of the word are uncertain. According to the communis opinio, ἀδάμμα is connected somehow with Ἀδάμνα ‘Attis’; cf. ἀδαμνεῖν.
📖 Ref.: cf. Fauth 1967: 132-134; Roussel 1930: 6f.; Rutherford 2020: 178, n. 102.