# A-KU-JU-PA (ʾakulpa)

> axe(s), weighed in \*118 units; Wanderwort, Hittite kullupi; rivals: a personal name, \*kVlūb- 'basket'

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

- Reading: ʾakulpa
- Confidence: Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once.
- Root: k-l-p
- Kind: Commodity
- Language: Anatolian
- Signs: A (a) · KU (ku) · JU (ju) · PA (pa)

## Compared forms

- Akkadian: *kalappu* — kalappu 'axe', counted by weight: ka-la-pu ša 2 GÍN 'an axe of two shekels' (CAD K 66)
- Hebrew: *kêlappôt* — kêlappôt 'axes' (Ps 74:6; HALOT 472), from Akkadian
- Aramaic: *kulbā* — kulbā 'axe' (CAL; Tg. Ps 74:5)
- Mandaic: *kulba* — kulba 'pickaxe' (Drower–Macuch 207a, cited by HALOT 472)
- Arabic: *kullāb* — kullāb 'hook' (Fraenkel 87, cited by HALOT 472)
- Hittite: *kullupi* — kullupi 'a kind of hoe', ᵁᴿᵁᴰᵁ (KBo 3.33 II 10′; KUB 7.41 obv. 5)

## Attestations

- [PA 1](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/PA1/index.md>): A-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.

## In the onomasticon

- [A-KU-JU-PA-\*118](<https://linear-a.ai/names/A-KU-JU-PA-*118/index.md>): Personal name, Anatolian

## References

- Reading: di Mino; CAD K; HALOT; CAL; TLHdig; Rabin 1963
- Rabin, Chaim (1963), Hittite Words in Hebrew. Orientalia,NS 32,Pontificium Institutum Biblicum (now Peeters),113–139
- HALOT: Koehler, Ludwig; Baumgartner, Walter; Stamm, Johann Jakob; Richardson, M. E. J. (trans. and ed.) (1994), The Hebrew and Aramaic Lexicon of the Old Testament, vols. I–IV. E. J. Brill, Leiden · New York · Köln
- CAD K: Oriental Institute (A. Leo Oppenheim and Erica Reiner, eds.) (1971), The Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, vol. 8, K. The Oriental Institute, Chicago; J. J. Augustin, Glückstadt
- CAL: Kaufman, Stephen A. (editor) et al. (2026), The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon (CAL). Hebrew Union College–Jewish Institute of Religion, Cincinnati (cal.huc.edu)
- 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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