# KU-PA-ZU (Kapizzi)

> Kapizzi (Hurrian personal name), 'kapizzi-jewel'; rival kupṯu 'headdress'

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

- Reading: Kapizzi
- Confidence: Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once.
- Kind: Personal name
- Language: Hurrian
- Signs: KU (ku) · PA (pa) · ZU (zu)

## Compared forms

- Hurrian: Kapizza, ka-bi-iz-za 'Like the kapizzi-jewel', and Kapizz(i)-atal, Šubat-Enlil (Monti 2017, 345–346)
- Ugarit: Kapizzi, ¹ka-bi-iz-zi, RS 16.257 III 39 (Kinlaw 1967, 71)
- Ugaritic: kpṯ, Akkadian kub/pšu 'headdress' (DULAT 448–449)

## Attestations

- [KH 5](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/KH5/index.md>): KU-PA-ZU CYP 3 ≈ ¹⁄₆ — Kapizzi (personal name); cyperus 3[ with a fraction

## Commentary

KH 5 .3 KU-PA-ZU, after WI-NA-DU · *301-NA ·, before a cyperus entry on .4 (GORILA III 25). ZU = zu, as in RU-ZU-NA: the Ugarit name ka-bi-iz-zi, Hurrian kabizzi 'jewel' (Monti 2017, 346), KU-PA for ka-bi a vowel mismatch only. DULAT 424 sets ka-bi-iz-zi beside kbs 'fuller', which ZU cannot spell. Rival on ZU = ṯu: kupṯu 'headdress', Ug. kpṯ, Akk. kub/pšu (DULAT 448–449). One witness.

## In the onomasticon

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

## References

- Reading: di Mino; Monti 2017; Kinlaw 1967
- 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
- Kinlaw, Dennis F. (1967), A Study of the Personal Names in the Akkadian Texts from Ugarit. Brandeis University, Department of Mediterranean Studies (Ph.D. dissertation)
- GORILA III: Godart, Louis; Olivier, Jean-Pierre (1976), Recueil des inscriptions en linéaire A, volume 3: Tablettes, nodules et rondelles édités en 1975 et 1976 (GORILA III). École française d'Athènes (Études crétoises XXI, 3); Librairie orientaliste Paul Geuthner, Paris
- Monti, Luciano Esteban (2017), A Systematic Approach to the Hurrian Pantheon: The Onomastic Evidence. PhD dissertation, Università degli Studi di Udine (XXVIII cycle)

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