# DU-PU₂-RE (dubur)

> sanctuary, inner sanctum (dubur)

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

- Reading: dubur
- Confidence: Probable. Fits the word’s contexts and has a close external comparison, without an independent control.
- Root: [\*dVb(V)r-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/151/index.md>) 'back, hind part' 1, 'descendants' 2
- Kind: Ritual
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: DU (du) · PU₂ (pu₂) · RE (re)
- Rank: #41 of the top 100

## Compared forms

- Hebrew: דְּבִיר *dəbîr* — dəbîr (דְּבִיר) 'inner sanctuary' (1 Kgs 6:5)
- Linear B: da-pu₂-ri-to-jo po-ti-ni-ja (KN Gg 702), identified with λαβύρινθος (Chadwick–Baumbach 1963, p. 216)

## Attestations

- [PK Za 11](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/PKZa11/index.md>): \[?\]-RE PI-TE-RI A-KO-A-NE A — O Diktaean of the Sanctuary
- [PK Za 15](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/PKZa15/index.md>): JA-DI-KI-TE-TE-DU-PU₂-RE
- [HT Zb 160](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HTZb160/index.md>): PA-TA-DA DU-PU₂-RE\[ — sanctuary, inner sanctum
- [PK Za 8](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/PKZa8/index.md>): \]NU PA₃-E JA-DI-KI-TE-TE-\*307-PU₂-RE TU-ME-I

## Commentary

PK Za 15 JA-DI-KI-TE-TE-DU-PU₂-RE 'O Diqqitīt of the sanctuary' and HT Zb 160 PA-TA-DA-DU-PU₂-RE. PK Za 11 reads A-DI-KI-TE-TE-[··]-RE (GORILA IV 34), two signs lost before RE, the slot DU-PU₂ fills on PK Za 15, and PK Za 8 writes it JA-DI-KI-TE-TE-*307-PU₂-RE. Three spellings write dubur: *307 alone, *307-PU₂-RE and DU-PU₂-RE. Hebrew dəbîr 'rear room, holy of holies' of the temple (HALOT 208); Linear B da-pu₂-ri-to-jo po-ti-ni-ja (KN Gg 702); Egyptian group writing d-bi₄-r dabīr 'naos, inner sanctuary' (GlOS 1, 140, after Hoch, SWET 376, no. 561). DU-PU₂ keeps the u-u of the base noun dubur 'back, hind part' (Arabic dubur, Akkadian dubur, #151), of which the holy of holies is the later back-room sense. See DU-*314-RE.

## Same root

- [VIR+\*307](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/VIR~2B*307/index.md>) (VIR-dubur)
- [TI-NI-TA \*307](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/TI-NI-TA~20*307/index.md>) (Tinitu Dubur)
- [A-DU \*307+\*307](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/A-DU~20*307~2B*307/index.md>) (Addu dubur-dubur)
- [DU-\*314-RE](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/DU-*314-RE/index.md>) (dubur)
- [OLE-\*307](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/OLE-*307/index.md>) (OLE-dubur)

## References

- Reading: di Mino; Facchetti 1999; Thomas 2020; GlOS 1; HALOT
- Facchetti, Giulio M. (1999), Non-onomastic elements in Linear A. Kadmos,38,121–136
- Thomas, Rose (2020), Some Reflections on Morphology in the Language of the Linear A Libation Formula. Kadmos,59,1–23
- 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
- Chadwick, John; Baumbach, Lydia (1963), The Mycenaean Greek Vocabulary. Glotta,41.3/4,Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht,157–271
- GORILA IV: Godart, Louis; Olivier, Jean-Pierre (1982), Recueil des inscriptions en linéaire A, volume 4: Autres documents (GORILA IV). École française d'Athènes (Études crétoises XXI, 4); Librairie orientaliste Paul Geuthner, Paris
- GlOS 1: Sanmartín, Joaquín (2019), A Glossary of Old Syrian, Volume 1: ʔ – ḳ. Languages of the Ancient Near East 8/1,Eisenbrauns (Pennsylvania State University Press), University Park

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