# KU-PA-JA (Kubbaya)

> personal name, hypocoristic of Kubaba in -aya, cf. Amorite Kubbiya

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

- Reading: Kubbaya
- Confidence: Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once.
- Root: Kubb-, short base of Kubaba (Sumerian Kug-Baba, Haas 1994, 406) + -aya
- Kind: Personal name
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: KU (ku) · PA (pa) · JA (ja)

## Compared forms

- Amorite: KUBB-IJA (KU-UB-BI-IA), Mari (Gelb AS 21 no. 4149); KUBB-AN-UM (no. 4148)

## Attestations

- [HT 116a](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT116a/index.md>): KU-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.

## In the onomasticon

- [KU-PA-JA](<https://linear-a.ai/names/KU-PA-JA/index.md>): Personal name, Semitic

## References

- Reading: di Mino; Gelb 1980; Haas 1994
- AS 21: Gelb, Ignace J. (1980), Computer-aided Analysis of Amorite. Assyriological Studies 21,The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago
- Haas, Volkert (1994), Geschichte der hethitischen Religion. E. J. Brill, Leiden (Handbuch der Orientalistik I/15)

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