# A-\*325-ZA (ʾabūs(a))

> the stall, storehouse

A Linear A word in the Linear A Lexicon. The reading is a proposal and carries its tier.

- Reading: ʾabūs(a)
- Confidence: Candidate. A comparison worth testing; the evidence is thin or the word is rare.
- Root: [\*ʾabūs-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/1336/index.md>) 'warehouse, manger'
- Kind: Administrative
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: A (a) · \*325 · ZA (za)

## Compared forms

- : see U-*325-ZA

## Attestations

- [PE 2](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/PE2/index.md>): A-\*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

- Attaza: Anatolian personal name (Lallname + -za), contingent on *325 = /at/.

## Same root

- [U-\*325-ZA](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/U-*325-ZA/index.md>) (ʾubūs(a))

## References

- Reading: di Mino
- CAD A/1: Oriental Institute (A. Leo Oppenheim, ed.) (1964), The Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, vol. A/1. Oriental Institute, Chicago; J. J. Augustin, Glückstadt

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