KA-KU-PA

Star (place name, as Mari Kabkab)

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Reading
kawkab
Confidence
Candidate
Root
*kabkab- ‘star’
Kind
Toponym
Language
Semitic
Rank
—

Compared forms

  • Ugaritic𐎋𐎁𐎋𐎁kbkbkbkb ‘star’ (GlOS 1, 297)
  • EblaiteᵈMUL = gag-gáb ‘star’, also a DN; names ga-kab, ga-ba-ga-bù (GlOS 1, 297)
  • MariKabkab, ka-ab-ka-ab, a place name (M.7630:4; FM II 338; MTT I/1, s.v. KABKAB)

Attestations3 cited

  1. HT 16KA-KU-PA
  2. HT Wc 3015KA-KU-PA CYP
  3. HT Wc 3016KA-KU-PA *304+PA CYP+D

Commentary

HT 16 KA-KU-PA ·, the heading over DI-NA-U ⅛, WA ⅓, *188+KU ⅜ and SA-PO ZE 1⁄16; on the roundels HT Wc 3015 KA-KU-PA with CYP and HT Wc 3016 with *304+PA and CYP+D, a party receiving cyperus. kawkab ‘star’, the Semitic word as a place name, as Mari’s town Kabkab (MTT I/1, s.v. Kabkab): Hebrew kôkāb (HALOT 463), Akkadian kakkabu, Arabic kawkab. Three attestations, all Haghia Triada.

On the 3D inscriptions

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

Linear A Lexicon