# A-DU \*307+\*307 (Addu dubur-dubur)

> Addu's sanctuary (Storm God + doubled sanctuary sign)

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

- Reading: Addu dubur-dubur
- Confidence: Probable. Fits the word’s contexts and has a close external comparison, without an independent control.
- Root: [\*hadad-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/3186/index.md>) 'thunder' + [\*dVb(V)r-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/151/index.md>) 'back, hind part' 1, 'descendants' 2
- Kind: Ritual
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: A (a) · DU (du) · \*307+\*307
- Rank: #70 of the top 100

## Compared forms

- Ugaritic: 𐎅𐎄 *hd* — hd(d) 'Haddu (Hadad), storm god' (see A-DU)
- Akkadian: *Addu* — Addu (= Adad) 'storm god'
- Hebrew: דְּבִיר *dəvîr* — dəvîr (דְּבִיר) 'inner sanctuary' (1 Kgs 6:5)

## Attestations

- [HT 85a](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT85a/index.md>): A-DU \*307+\*307 VIR+\[?\] — Storm god; rival adû 'work assignment'

## Commentary

HT 85a .1 A-DU · *307+*307 · VIR+[?] ·, heading a personnel register of 66 workers. The middle sign is *307 written twice, joined by a top bar (A 638; GORILA I 131), as Montecchi also reads A 638 (2008, 316 n. 30). KA-RU · *307+*307 · VIR+KA heads HT 97a. The entry keeps the attested phrase whole: the theonym A-DU with the doubled *307. See DU-PU₂-RE.

## Same root

- [VIR+\*307](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/VIR~2B*307/index.md>) (VIR-dubur)
- [TI-NI-TA \*307](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/TI-NI-TA~20*307/index.md>) (Tinitu Dubur)
- [DU-PU₂-RE](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/DU-PU~E2~82~82-RE/index.md>) (dubur)
- [A-DU](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/A-DU/index.md>) (ʾAddu / adû)
- [DU-\*314-RE](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/DU-*314-RE/index.md>) (dubur)
- [OLE-\*307](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/OLE-*307/index.md>) (OLE-dubur)
- [A-DU-NI-TA-NA](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/A-DU-NI-TA-NA/index.md>) (ʾAddu-nittāna)
- [A-DU-KU-MI-NA](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/A-DU-KU-MI-NA/index.md>) (ʾAddu-kumina)

## References

- Reading: di Mino
- GORILA I: Godart, Louis; Olivier, Jean-Pierre (1976), Recueil des inscriptions en linéaire A, volume 1: Tablettes éditées avant 1970 (GORILA I). École française d'Athènes (Études crétoises XXI, 1); Librairie orientaliste Paul Geuthner, Paris

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