# KU-PA₃-NA-TU (Kubānatu)

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

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

- Reading: Kubānatu
- Confidence: Candidate. A comparison worth testing; the evidence is thin or the word is rare.
- Root: Kubaba (Sumerian Kug-Baba, Haas 1994, 406) + -ān- + -at-
- Kind: Personnel
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: KU (ku) · PA₃ (pa₃) · NA (na) · TU (tu)
- Rank: #95 of the top 100

## Compared forms

- Anatolian/North Syrian: Kubaba, divine name (Ugarit, Carchemish); Hurrian Kubaba (Laroche 1980, 150)
- Amorite: Kupapa, 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-
- Akkadian: *ištarītu* — ištarītu 'a priestess', named from Ištar; Kubabat (Old Assyrian; Haas 1994, 406, 614)

## Attestations

- [HT 47a](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT47a/index.md>): KU-PA₃-NA-TU 20\[ — devotees of Kubaba(?)
- [HT 119](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT119/index.md>): KU-PA₃-NA-TU 7 — devotees 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.

## In the onomasticon

- [KU-PA₃-NA-TU](<https://linear-a.ai/names/KU-PA~E2~82~83-NA-TU/index.md>): Title, Semitic

## References

- Reading: di Mino, Ya Diktu; Gelb 1980, AS 21, nos. 708, 2094, 4099–4100, 4148; Laroche 1980, 150; Haas 1994
- GLH: Laroche, Emmanuel (1980), Glossaire de la langue hourrite. Editions Klincksieck
- 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)
- Ya Diktu: di Mino, Tom (2026), Ya Diktu: Grammar of the Minoan Peak Sanctuary Libation Formula. Minoan Mystery, online,46 pp.

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