# KA-RO-PA₃ (karbu) > carafe, drinking vessel (Akkadian karpatu; Ugaritic krpn) A Linear A word in the Linear A Lexicon. The reading is a proposal and carries its tier. - Reading: karbu - Confidence: Probable. Fits the word’s contexts and has a close external comparison, without an independent control. - Root: [\*karp-]() 'jar' - Kind: Vessel - Language: Semitic - Signs: KA (ka) · RO (ro) · PA₃ (pa₃) - Rank: #38 of the top 100 ## Compared forms - Ugaritic: 𐎋𐎗𐎔𐎐 *krpn* — krpn 'cup, goblet' (DULAT 452), where DULAT records Stieglitz 1971's equation with Minoan ka-ro-pa₃ - Akkadian: *karpatu* — karpatu 'earthen pot; a measure' (CAD K 219); karpu 'pot, earthen container' (CAD K 221) ## Attestations - [HT 31](): \]\*416-VS-KA-RO-PA₃ 10 — carafe, drinking vessel ## Commentary HT 31: after the vessel ideogram *416-VS (quantity 10), one of Gordon's HT 31 vessel quartet (Gordon 1966, §115). Gordon read ka-ro-pa as karpu, Akk. karpatu 'earthen container, pot' (CAD K 219), one of the commonest vessel words in cuneiform. PA₃ = ba writes k-r-b, but the root is √k-r-p: a single p is voiced between vowels, here between o and a. Stieglitz took up the identification with the Akkadian and Ugaritic cognates (Stieglitz 1971, 110). Rendsburg cites 'Min. ka-ro-pà (HT 31.3) (Gordon, EML, 26, 30, 39; Stieglitz 1971)' as cognate with Ugaritic krpn 'carafe, goblet, flagon' (Ugaritic Dictionary, forthcoming). Its six Ugaritic passages (El blessing Kirta, ʿAnat drinking wine, Baʿal's feast) make it a drinking vessel. Ugaritic krpn 'cup, goblet' (DULAT 452) carries the afformative -n (Dahood 1965, 161, apud Stieglitz 1971, 110 n. 2) that Minoan karp- lacks. Weak point: PA₃ = ba is a proposed value; Gordon's p (PA₃ as PA) gives √k-r-p without the voicing. One attestation. ## References - Reading: Gordon 1966; Stieglitz 1971; Rendsburg, Ugaritic Dictionary; DULAT; CAD K; di Mino - Gordon, Cyrus H. (1966), Evidence for the Minoan Language. Ventnor Publishers,68 - Stieglitz, Robert R. (1971), Minoan Vessel Names. Kadmos,10,110–112 - CAD K: Oriental Institute (A. Leo Oppenheim and Erica Reiner, eds.) (1971), The Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, vol. 8, K. The Oriental Institute, Chicago; J. J. Augustin, Glückstadt - 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 --- Page: https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/KA-RO-PA~E2~82~83/ Licence: CC BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Cite as: di Mino, Tom. 2026. Linear A Lexicon. Plasma AI. https://linear-a.ai/. Data: kaphtor, commit add28e94.