KU-PA₃-NA-TU

devotee(s) of Kubaba (Kubaba + -ān- + feminine -atu), a counted personnel group

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Reading
Kubānatu
Confidence
Candidate
Root
Kubaba (Sumerian Kug-Baba, Haas 1994, 406) + -ān- + -at-
Kind
Personnel
Language
Semitic
Rank
#95 of the top 100

Compared forms

  • Anatolian/North SyrianKubaba, divine name (Ugarit, Carchemish); Hurrian Kubaba (Laroche 1980, 150)
  • AmoriteKupapa, fem. DN (Gelb glossary); ʾAlli-Kupapa, Baʿli-Kupapa (nos. 708, 2094); short base in Kubb-ān-um (no. 4148) and Kuba-ʾEl (nos. 4099–4100), which Gelb segments kubb-, kuʾb-
  • Akkadianištarītuištarītu ‘a priestess’, named from Ištar; Kubabat (Old Assyrian; Haas 1994, 406, 614)

Attestations2 cited

  1. HT 47aKU-PA₃-NA-TU 20[devotees of Kubaba(?)
  2. HT 1193DKU-PA₃-NA-TU 7devotees of Kubaba, a personnel group

Commentary

Feminine of KU-PA₃-NU Kubānu, on the base of KU-PA₃-PA₃ Kubaba (HT 88, where KU-PA₃-NU also stands). HT 119 KU-RO 160 includes *327 34 and VIR 68, so KU-PA₃-NA-TU 7 counts persons. HT 47a KU-PA₃-NA-TU 20[ is broken. Amorite has the short base with the same -ān- in Kubb-ān-um (Gelb 1980, no. 4148), and in Kuba-ʾEl (Gelb 1980, nos. 4099–4100), so the name need not write Kubaba’s second BA. Akkadian ištarītu, a priestess named from Ištar, is the same type. AP Za 2 ]-KU-PA₃-NA-TU-NA-TE-[ carries the stem.

On the 3D inscriptions1 inscription

HT 119Haghia Triadaku-pa₃-na-tu…
Linear A Lexicon