- Reading
- ʾabūs(a)
- Confidence
- Candidate
- Root
- *ʾabūs- ‘warehouse, manger’
- Kind
- Administrative
- Language
- Semitic
- Rank
- —
Compared forms
- see U-*325-ZA
Attestations1 cited
- PE 2A-*325-ZA ¹⁄₄
Commentary
PE 2, a list in fractions: RU-PI ⅓, SA-*305-MI 1⅛, A-*325-ZA ¼, A-RI-PA ¼, QA-QA-DA ½, TO-ME ⅓, TO-*49-RE 1. ʾabūs(a) ‘the stall, storehouse’, Akk. abūsu ‘storehouse’, pl. abūsātu and ubsātu (CAD A/1 92), with *325 read bu: A-*325-ZA spells ʾabūs- sign for sign, the PS *s, pronounced [ts], taking the Z-series. A variant of U-*325-ZA, as Akk. abūsātu beside ubsātu. One attestation. See U-*325-ZA.
Rival readings
- AttazaAnatolian personal name (Lallname + -za), contingent on *325 = /at/.
On the 3D inscriptions
Not written on any of the 82 inscriptions modelled so far.