KU-PA
box, basket (standardized container for measured commodity allocations)
- Reading
- quppa
- Confidence
- Candidate
- Root
- *ḳupp- ‘box’ 1, ‘basket’ 2
- Kind
- Administrative
- Language
- Semitic
- Rank
- #91 of the top 100
Compared forms
- Akkadianquppuquppu ‘box’; qappatu ‘basket’
- Arabicquffat-quffat- ‘basket’
- Geezqafoqafo ‘basket’
- Mehriḳeffētḳeffēt ‘basket’
- Soqotriḳefetḳefet ‘basket’
- Ugaritic𐎖𐎔𐎚qptqpt ‘box, chest, basket’ (GlOS 1, 349)
Attestations4 cited
Commentary
ZA 11a and ZA 11b each have KU-PA · GRA+PA, with 1 and 3: a container named before measured grain; HT 110a has KU-PA 1 after CYP+E 20, and KH 29 KU-PA before 2. quppa ‘box, basket’: Akk. quppu A ‘(a wicker basket or wooden chest)’ (CAD Q 307), KU writing qu, since Linear A has no QU sign; the accusative *quppa(m) gives KU-PA. The small quantities (1–3) count single containers. See QE-PI-TA and KA-PA.
On the 3D inscriptions
Not written on any of the 82 inscriptions modelled so far.