LEXICON OF ORIENTAL WORDS IN ANCIENT GREEK

ἀταστίται <Egyptian?; Hellenistic period>

👉 ἀταστίται, gen. -ῶν, pl. m. – prob. ‘a cultic group’ (UPZ 1 98.20, 44 and 99: 2nd c. BCE).

This word occurs only in papyri from Egypt.

🅔 Perhaps an Egyptian loanword.

📖 Ref.: cf. Mayser – Schmoll 1970: 27; Torallas Tovar 2004: 180.