A-KU-JU-PA
axe(s), weighed in *118 units; Wanderwort, Hittite kullupi; rivals: a personal name, *kVlūb- 'basket'
- Reading
- ʾakulpa
- Confidence
- Speculative
- Root
- k-l-p
- Kind
- Commodity
- Language
- Anatolian
- Rank
- —
Compared forms
- Akkadiankalappukalappu ‘axe’, counted by weight: ka-la-pu ša 2 GÍN ‘an axe of two shekels’ (CAD K 66)
- Hebrewkêlappôtkêlappôt ‘axes’ (Ps 74:6; HALOT 472), from Akkadian
- Aramaickulbākulbā ‘axe’ (CAL; Tg. Ps 74:5)
- Mandaickulbakulba ‘pickaxe’ (Drower–Macuch 207a, cited by HALOT 472)
- Arabickullābkullāb ‘hook’ (Fraenkel 87, cited by HALOT 472)
- Hittitekullupikullupi ‘a kind of hoe’, ᵁᴿᵁᴰᵁ (KBo 3.33 II 10′; KUB 7.41 obv. 5)
Attestations1 cited
- PA 1A-KU-JU-PA-*118 35
Commentary
PA 1: A-KU-JU-PA-*118 35, the tablet’s only entry (GORILA I 284). *118 closes the group before the numeral, as in SI+ME-KI-*118 1¾ and *539-*118 1 on HT 24b, where it takes fractions; Linear B writes the talent with *118. KU-JU writes kul, as in I-KU-JU-TI ʾukulti (ZA 6b), SU-JU-TA sulta (KN 22a) and ZU-JU-PU₂ ṯulpu (HT 25a). Hittite ᵁᴿᵁᴰᵁkullupi, a copper hoe or axe (KBo 3.33 II 10′; KUB 7.41 obv. 5), and Aramaic kulbā share the kul-; Akk. kalappu has kal-. Rabin 1963, 124 reads Hebrew *kulappôt, with kul-, and leaves the loan’s direction open: if Akkadian kalabu is old, Hittite too took it from a third language. A Wanderwort of the metal trade. One attestation.
On the 3D inscriptions
Not written on any of the 82 inscriptions modelled so far.