# A-SU-JA (Azzuya)

> Azzuya (woman's name; Hurrian hypocoristic on az(z)-)

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

- Reading: Azzuya
- Confidence: Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once.
- Kind: Personal name
- Language: Hurrian
- Signs: A (a) · SU (su) · JA (ja)

## Compared forms

- Nuzi: AZ(Z)UIA, A-zu-ia, var. Az-zu-ia, a woman (Gelb, Purves, and MacRae 1943, 41); az(z), Hurrian, in women's names (ibid., 208)
- Hurrian: Azzuāya, az-zu-a-ia, f. (Mari, VHN 81); base Azzu 'woman', f. (Mari, Karana; Monti 2017, 234, 386)

## Attestations

- [HT 11a](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT11a/index.md>): A-SU-JA 1 — Azzuya (woman's name, Hurrian)

## Commentary

HT 11a .3–4 A-SU-JA 1, A at the end of .3 and SU-JA on .4, whole and undotted, the first entry after KU-RO 10 (GORILA I 23). Spelled as Nuzi A-zu-ia: SU writes zu, JA the hypocoristic -ya. Rival: Ugaritic PN ùsy (DULAT 111).

## In the onomasticon

- [A-SU-JA](<https://linear-a.ai/names/A-SU-JA/index.md>): Personal name, Hurrian

## References

- Reading: di Mino; Gelb, Purves, and MacRae 1943; Monti 2017
- NPN: Gelb, Ignace J.; Purves, Pierre M.; MacRae, Allan A. (1943), Nuzi Personal Names. Oriental Institute Publications 57, University of Chicago
- DULAT: del Olmo Lete, Gregorio; Sanmartín, Joaquín (2015), A Dictionary of the Ugaritic Language in the Alphabetic Tradition. Brill, Leiden/Boston (Handbook of Oriental Studies 1/112); Third Revised Edition, tr. and ed. Wilfred G.E. Watson; 2 parts
- 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
- Monti, Luciano Esteban (2017), A Systematic Approach to the Hurrian Pantheon: The Onomastic Evidence. PhD dissertation, Università degli Studi di Udine (XXVIII cycle)

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