# A-SU-PU-WA (ʾasuppūa)

> store(house), an entry under SI-DA-TE 'provisions'; rival a personal designation in -uwa

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

- Reading: ʾasuppūa
- Confidence: Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once.
- Root: [\*ʾasupp-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/3870/index.md>) 'outbuilding, storeroom'
- Kind: Administrative
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: A (a) · SU (su) · PU (pu) · WA (wa)

## Compared forms

- Hebrew: *bêt hāʾăsuppîm* — bêt hāʾăsuppîm 'the house of the stores' (1 Chr 26:15); ʾăsuppê 'storehouses of' (Neh 12:25); a loan from Akk. asuppu 'anteroom' (HALOT 76)
- Akkadian: asuppu, an outbuilding; É a-su-up-pu bīt kāri 'an a.-house and a storehouse', Nbn. 499:1 (CAD A/2 349)

## Attestations

- [ARKH 2](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/ARKH2/index.md>): A-SU-PU-WA 4 — store(house), 4; rival a personal designation in -uwa

## Commentary

ARKH 2 .5–6 A-SU-PU-WA 4, the final WA over an erasure, an entry under the heading SI-DA-TE ṣēdat 'provisions', after ZU-*301-SE-DE-*21F-*118 6 (GORILA III 6–7). ʾa-su-pp-ū-a, the ʾăsuppîm 'stores' of 1 Chr 26:15, Akk. asuppu, a loan in Hebrew (HALOT 76). -PU-WA writes the glide before a final -a, as A-SI-SU-PO-A writes -PO-A (KH 9), and QA-RA₂-WA stands beside QE-RA₂-U. Rival: a personal designation in -uwa, since A-SI-SU-PO-A stands beside the person sign VIR+*307. One witness. See A-SI-SU-PO-A.

## Same root

- [A-SI-SU-PO-A](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/A-SI-SU-PO-A/index.md>) (ʾassuppōa)

## References

- Reading: di Mino; HALOT; CAD
- CAD A/2: Oriental Institute (A. Leo Oppenheim, ed.) (1968), The Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, vol. A/2. 
- 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
- GORILA III: Godart, Louis; Olivier, Jean-Pierre (1976), Recueil des inscriptions en linéaire A, volume 3: Tablettes, nodules et rondelles édités en 1975 et 1976 (GORILA III). École française d'Athènes (Études crétoises XXI, 3); Librairie orientaliste Paul Geuthner, Paris

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