Knossos, Mycenae, Pylos, Thebes
Definitions
Hiller 2011: 'Mistress'
Chadwick & Ventris 1973: the Mistress, cf. πότνια
Wiktionary:
1. lady
2. divine title / proper name of a goddess
Palaeolexicon: goddess surname
Homeric Greek
Iliad I.550, I.565, IV.50: [[qo-o|βοῶ]]πις πότνια Ἥρη 'ox-eyed, queenly Hera'
Iliad IV.2: πότνια Ἥβη 'queenly Hebe'
Iliad VI.260: πότνια μῆτερ 'queenly mother'
Iliad VI.410, VI.470: πότνια μήτηρ 'queenly mother'
Iliad VIII.198, VIII.218: πότνια Ἥρη 'queenly Hera'
Variants
po-ti-ni-ja-we
Chadwick & Ventris 1973: defective spelling for po-ti-ni-ja-we-jo
po-ti-ni-ja-we-ja
Chadwick & Ventris 1973: of or belonging to Potnia; nominative singular or plural feminine or plural neuter
po-ti-ni-ja-we-jo
parallel to toponyms on the PY Jn series
Chadwick & Ventris 1973: of or belonging to Potnia; nominative singular masculatine adjective
po-ti-ni-ja-we-i-jo
Chadwick & Ventris 1973: variant spelling for po-ti-ni-ja-we-jo
Compound Concepts
po-ti-ni-ja wo-ko-de (TH Of 36)
Chadwick & Spyropoulos 1975, p. 89: House of Potnia "may well have been at the place just south of Thebes known in classical times as Πότνιαι (i.e. Demeter and Kore)" from Pausanias IX, 8.1
Epithets?
See details for each entry; some of these are uncertain.
a-ta-na-po-ti-ni-ja (KN V 52)
da-pu2-ri-to-jo po-ti-ni-ja (KN Gg 702)
si-to-po-ti-ni-ja (MY Oi 701)
po-ti-ni-ja i-qe-ja (PY An 1281)
van Leuven 1979: epithet of Demeter or Athena, or as a precursor of Leto
po-ti-ni-ja a-si-wi-ja (PY Fr 1206)
van Leuven 1979: epithet of Artemis
e-re-wi-jo-po-ti-ni-ja (PY Vn 48)
van Leuven 1979: epithet of Hera
ne-wo-pe-o po-ti-ni-ja (PY Cc 665)
van Leuven 1979: district, not an epithet
u-po-jo po-ti-ni-ja (PY Fr 1225, PY Fr 1236)
van Leuven 1979: uncertain epithet
References
Chadwick, John and Theodoros Spyropoulos, 1975 The Thebes Tablets II
Chadwick, John and Michael Ventris, 1973 Documents in Mycenaean Greek
Hiller, Stefan, 2011 A Companion to Linear B: Mycenean Greek Texts and their World vol. II (ed. Yves Duhoux and Anna Morpurgo Davies) "Religion and Cult"
Homer, 2003 Iliad (trans. A.T. Murray, ed. William F. Wyatt)
van Leuven, Jon C., 1979 Kadmos Band 18 Heft 2 “Mycenaean Goddesses Called Potnia”