# I-KU-TA (Ḥikuptaḥ)

> place name: Memphis, the seat of Kothar (Ug. Ḥkpt), a recipient of cyperus; rival 'the Memphite'

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

- Reading: Ḥikuptaḥ
- Confidence: Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once.
- Kind: Toponym
- Language: Middle Egyptian
- Signs: I (i) · KU (ku) · TA (ta)

## Compared forms

- Egyptian: *ḥwt-kꜣ-ptḥ* — ḥwt-kꜣ-ptḥ 'Memphis' (DULAT 353)
- Ugaritic: Ḥkpt, the residence of the god kṯr (DULAT 353)
- Amarna: ḫi-ku-up-ta-aḫ (EA 84:37); ḫi-ku-ta-aḫ, the p unwritten (EA 139:8) (Belmonte, RGTC 12/2, 105)
- Linear B: i-ku-to, a man in the dative (MY Oi 705.1)

## Attestations

- [HT 35](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT35/index.md>): I-KU-TA CYP 1

## Commentary

HT 35 .1 I-KU-TA at the end of the line after TI-TI-KU · *326 ·, its entry CYP 1 at the head of .2 (GORILA I 67); all three signs whole and undotted. ḥi-ku(p)-ta(ḥ): I writes ḥi with the guttural dropped, the coda p and the final ḥ unwritten. The Byblos letter EA 139:8 also leaves the p unwritten, ḫi-ku-ta-aḫ, where EA 84:37 has ḫi-ku-up-ta-aḫ (Belmonte, RGTC 12/2, 105). Ugaritic Ḥkpt is the seat of Kothar, Egyptian ḥwt-kꜣ-ptḥ (DULAT 353). Linear B i-ku-to is a man in the dative at Mycenae (MY Oi 705.1). One witness.

## In the onomasticon

- [I-KU-TA](<https://linear-a.ai/names/I-KU-TA/index.md>): Place, Egyptian

## References

- Reading: di Mino; DULAT; Belmonte
- EA: Moran, William L. (1992), The Amarna Letters. Johns Hopkins University Press
- 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
- RGTC 12/2: Belmonte Marín, Juan Antonio (2001), Die Orts- und Gewässernamen der Texte aus Syrien im 2. Jt. v. Chr.. Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag, Wiesbaden (Répertoire Géographique des Textes Cunéiformes 12/2; Beihefte zum Tübinger Atlas des Vorderen Orients B 7/12/2)

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