DU-PA₃-NA

personal name, 'bear' with -ān

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Reading: Dubbān
Confidence: Speculative
Root: *dubb- ‘bear’
Kind: Personal name
Language: Semitic
Rank: —

Compared forms

EblaiteAZ = dab₆-bù, da-bù ‘bear’ (GlOS 1, 139)
Akkadiandabû, dabbu ‘bear’, in Old Akkadian personal names before the literary texts (CAD D 17; AHw 148)
Hebrewdōbdōb ‘bear’ (1 Sam 17:34), pl. dubbîm (2 Kgs 2:24)
Arabicdubbdubb ‘bear’ (Lane 841)

Attestations1 cited

HT 115bDU-PA₃-NA 1personal name, 'bear' with -ān, 1

Commentary

HT 115b .2 DU-PA₃-NA 1, whole and undotted, after TI-NU-JA · NU-WI · GRA ½ and before KU-RU-MA · I ½, on a palimpsest (GORILA I 191). Amorite DABIN-UM (Gelb 1980, no. 1411) and the root DBB in Gelb’s glossary; Arabian DBN (Harding 1971, 234). Rival: Harding’s own gloss, dibbān ‘fly’. One document.

On the 3D inscriptions

Not written on any of the 82 inscriptions modelled so far.