# KU-PA-RI (kuparī)

> the villages, a group of men drawing grain; rival kaparrī 'junior shepherds'

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

- Reading: kuparī
- Confidence: Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once.
- Root: [\*kapār-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/K0100/index.md>) 'village'
- Kind: Toponym
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: KU (ku) · PA (pa) · RI (ri)

## Compared forms

- Hebrew: *kōper* — kōper 'village', wᵉʿad kōper happᵉrāzî 'and to the village of the open country' (1 Sam 6:18); pl. kᵉpārîm, beʿārîm ûbakkᵉpārîm 'in the cities and in the villages' (1 Chr 27:25)
- Akkadian: *kaparru* — kaparru 'shepherd of low rank': ŠE.BA 7 LÚ ka-pa-ar-ri 'grain rations of 7 k.-shepherds' (Chagar Bazar, AOAT 1 206 A 931:16); rations ša LÚ.NA.GADA.MEŠ u LÚ ka-pa-ar-ri (ARM 5 71:6, 14) (CAD K 177), the rival

## Attestations

- [PE 1](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/PE1/index.md>): KU-PA-RI VIR+\[?\] 50 — the villages, a group of men drawing grain; rival kaparrī 'junior shepherds'

## Commentary

PE 1 .2 KU-PA-RI VIR 5̣0[, whole, under the heading U-KA-RE A-SE-SI-NA; .3 GRA+PA 26½; .3–4 E-KA[ VIR 72, .4–5 GRA+PA 36: grain rations at ½ unit a head, VIR 53 restored from 26½ (Younger, Linear A Texts, after Tsipopoulou & Hallager 1996, 25–30). ku-pa-rī, plural oblique of *kupr 'village', Hebrew kōper (1 Sam 6:18), with the a of the qutl plural, as bōqer, pl. bᵉqārîm (Lam 3:23). KA-PA kapa(r) heads VIR+[?] 62 on HT 94a in the same frame. Rival: Akkadian kaparru 'shepherd of low rank', whose men draw grain rations at Chagar Bazar and Mari (CAD K 177), which needs KU for ka. One witness.

## Same root

- [KA-PA](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/KA-PA/index.md>) (kapa(r))

## References

- Reading: di Mino; CAD K
- 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
- Tsipopoulou, Metaxia; Hallager, Erik (1996), Inscriptions with Hieroglyphs and Linear A from Petras, Siteia. Studi Micenei ed Egeo-Anatolici,37,Istituti Editoriali e Poligrafici Internazionali, Roma,41

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