# CYP ((logogram))

> cyperus, aromatic sedge (commodity logogram)

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

- Reading: (logogram)
- Confidence: Probable. Fits the word’s contexts and has a close external comparison, without an independent control.
- Kind: Commodity
- Language: Logogram, Logograms
- Signs: CYP
- Rank: #54 of the top 100

## Compared forms

- Akkadian: *suādu* — suādu 'an aromatic plant, Cyperus esculentus', also suʾādu, sumādu (CAD S 338)
- Arabic: suʿd, a species of cyperus (Lane 1361)

## Attestations

- [HT 100](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT100/index.md>): SA-RA₂ CYP 5 ¹⁄₄ — cyperus, aromatic sedge
- [HT 106](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT106/index.md>): MI-NU-TE CYP 6 ¹⁄₂ — cyperus (commodity logogram)
- [HT 110a](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT110a/index.md>): SI-DU-\*34-KU-MI CYP+E 20
- [HT 112b](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT112b/index.md>): CYP 6
- [HT 12](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT12/index.md>): CYP+E 3
- [HT 130](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT130/index.md>): SA-RA₂ CYP
- [HT 23a](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT23a/index.md>): KA-NA CYP ¹⁄₃ — cyperus, aromatic sedge
- [HT 23b](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT23b/index.md>): NI-RA CYP ¹⁄₃ — cyperus
- [HT 27a](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT27a/index.md>): CYP 9 𐝕𐝁 — cyperus
- [HT 30](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT30/index.md>): SA-RA₂ CYP
- [HT 35](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT35/index.md>): I-KU-TA CYP 1
- [HT 89](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT89/index.md>): CYP 2 ³⁄₄
- [HT 94a](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT94a/index.md>): SA-RA₂ CYP 5
- [HT 99a](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT99a/index.md>): SA-RA₂ CYP 4 — cyperus, aromatic sedge
- [HT Wa 1021bis](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HTWa1021bis/index.md>): \*304+PA CYP+D 3
- [HT Wb 229](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HTWb229/index.md>): \*188 CYP+D
- [HT Wc 3015](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HTWc3015/index.md>): KA-KU-PA CYP
- [HT Wc 3016](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HTWc3016/index.md>): KA-KU-PA \*304+PA CYP+D
- [HT Wc 3017](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HTWc3017/index.md>): QA-KU-RE DI-\*306 CYP+D \*304+PA
- [HT Wc \<3018\>](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HTWc~3C3018~3E/index.md>): KA CYP+D
- [HT Wc 3020](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HTWc3020/index.md>): \*188-DU \*304+PA CYP+D
- [KH 103](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/KH103/index.md>): A548-A615-A303-AB131/VINA
- [KH 11](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/KH11/index.md>): A-DU-\[?\]-ZA CYP ¹⁄₁₆
- [KH 12](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/KH12/index.md>): CYP 2
- [KH 13](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/KH13/index.md>): \*304-CYP ¹⁄₃
- [KH 14](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/KH14/index.md>): A-MA-JA CYP 6
- [KH 15](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/KH15/index.md>): CYP ¹⁄₂ — cyperus, aromatic sedge
- [KH 16](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/KH16/index.md>): CYP 𐝇𐝉𐝫
- [KH 2](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/KH2/index.md>): CYP ¹⁄₄
- [KH 20](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/KH20/index.md>): A-SI-KI-RA CYP+E
- [KH 21](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/KH21/index.md>): CYP 𐝍
- [KH 22](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/KH22/index.md>): CYP
- [KH 23](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/KH23/index.md>): CYP
- [KH 29](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/KH29/index.md>): CYP ¹⁄₂
- [KH 33](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/KH33/index.md>): CYP+D
- [KH 34](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/KH34/index.md>): CYP+E 2
- [KH 35](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/KH35/index.md>): CYP
- [KH 38](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/KH38/index.md>): CYP+D ¹⁄₂
- [KH 4](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/KH4/index.md>): CYP ¹⁄₃
- [KH 5](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/KH5/index.md>): KU-PA-ZU CYP 3 ≈ ¹⁄₆ — cyperus with E, 2
- [KH 54](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/KH54/index.md>): CYP+E 1
- [KH 57](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/KH57/index.md>): CYP ¹⁄₄
- [KH 58](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/KH58/index.md>): \]CYP 4
- [KH 6](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/KH6/index.md>): CYP ¹⁄₂ — cyperus, 2 with a fraction
- [KH 60](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/KH60/index.md>): TA₂-CYP
- [KH 61](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/KH61/index.md>): CYP 2
- [KH 75](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/KH75/index.md>): CYP 𐝇𐝉
- [KH 76](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/KH76/index.md>): CYP 𐝃𐝌
- [KH 77](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/KH77/index.md>): CYP 𐝍
- [KH 7a](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/KH7a/index.md>): CYP+D 1\[
- [KH 7b](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/KH7b/index.md>): U-TA-I-SE CYP+D ¹⁄₂
- [KH 8](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/KH8/index.md>): CYP ¹⁄₄
- [KH 84](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/KH84/index.md>): CYP ¹⁄₂
- [KH 85](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/KH85/index.md>): CYP ¹⁄₅
- [KH 86](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/KH86/index.md>): \]RE-ZA CYP
- [KH 9](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/KH9/index.md>): CYP ¹⁄₄
- [PH 1a](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/PH1a/index.md>): CYP ≈ ¹⁄₆

## Commentary

Cyperus commodity logogram, its principal distribution at Khania: 35 plain and 28 in the fraction ligatures CYP+D and CYP+E. The sign continues as the Linear B CYPERUS ideogram, associated with ku-pa-ro. On HT 89 it opens the commodity section after the total, at 2 + A732. At Khania it keeps company with aromatics: myrrh (MI+JA+RU), *401+RU and fine oil (OLE+TA).

## References

- Reading: di Mino
- Lane: Lane, Edward William (1863), An Arabic-English Lexicon. Williams and Norgate, London
- CAD S: Oriental Institute (Erica Reiner, ed.) (1984), The Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, vol. 15, S. The Oriental Institute, Chicago; J. J. Augustin, Glückstadt

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