# KA-PO-RU (kapōru)

> bowl; rival kubburu 'extra share'

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

- Reading: kapōru
- Confidence: Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once.
- Root: [\*kapūr-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/3777/index.md>) 'bowl'
- Kind: Vessel
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: KA (ka) · PO (po) · RU (ru)

## Compared forms

- Hebrew: *kəpôr* — kəpôr 'bowl', kəpôrê zāhāb šəlōšîm 'thirty golden bowls' (Ezra 1:10); among the temple vessels (1 Chr 28:17)
- Emar: 1 DUG kap-pár-ra, 2 DUG kap-[pár-ru], a vessel (GlOS 1, 315)
- Ugaritic: DUG ku-BA-ra-tu |kupārāt|, a vessel (GlOS 1, 315)

## Attestations

- [HT 115a](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT115a/index.md>): KA-PO-RU 1 — bowl, 1; rival kubburu 'extra share'

## Commentary

HT 115a .5 KA-PO-RU 1, whole and undotted, on its own line after A-SE-JA ⅔ 'portion of the fire offering' and before RI-SU-MA · SU, under GRA+BOSm (GORILA I 189). kapōru 'bowl': PO keeps the ō of the Canaanite shift, as Hebrew kəpôr 'small metal bowl' (Ezra 1:10; HALOT 492). Rival: kubburu 'extra (payment), preferential (share)', Emar ka₄-ku-bu-ru, Alalakh ku-ub-bu-rum (GlOS 1, 299), which needs PO for bu. One attestation.

## References

- Reading: di Mino; HALOT; GlOS 1
- 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
- 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
- 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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