KU-PA-JA
personal name, hypocoristic of Kubaba in -aya, cf. Amorite Kubbiya
- Reading
- Kubbaya
- Confidence
- Speculative
- Root
- Kubb-, short base of Kubaba (Sumerian Kug-Baba, Haas 1994, 406) + -aya
- Kind
- Personal name
- Language
- Semitic
- Rank
- —
Compared forms
- AmoriteKUBB-IJA (KU-UB-BI-IA), Mari (Gelb AS 21 no. 4149); KUBB-AN-UM (no. 4148)
Attestations1 cited
- HT 116aKU-PA-JA GRA 16
Commentary
HT 116a: KU-PA-JA GRA 16, first of six grain recipients under U-TA-RO · TE ·, with PU-RA₂, SI+SE, PI-*34-TE, SI-KI-NE and QA-NU-MA. KU-PA-JA writes Kubbaya, the geminate unwritten, -aya the hypocoristic ending on Kubaba’s short base, as -ān- on KU-PA₃-NU Kubānu; cf. Amorite KUBB-IJA at Mari, KUBB-AN-UM (Gelb AS 21 nos. 4148–4149) and the goddess Kupapa (Gelb 1980, 23). Rival: KU-PA quppa ‘box, basket’ (HT 110a, KH 29, ZA 11a/b) with -ya. One attestation.
On the 3D inscriptions
Not written on any of the 82 inscriptions modelled so far.