# KU-PA₃-NU (Kubānu)

> devotee of Kubaba (Kubaba + -ān-), personal name or title; rival Ugaritic Gupana/Gupan

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

- Reading: Kubānu
- Confidence: Probable. Fits the word’s contexts and has a close external comparison, without an independent control.
- Root: Kubaba (Sumerian Kug-Baba, Haas 1994, 406) + -ān-
- Kind: Personal name
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: KU (ku) · PA₃ (pa₃) · NU (nu)
- Rank: #52 of the top 100

## Compared forms

- Anatolian/North Syrian: Kubaba, divine name (Laroche 1980, 150; DULAT 419); base of Kubānu
- Amorite: Kubb-ān-um (Gelb, AS 21, no. 4148)
- Ugaritic: rival {m}gu-pa-na, personal name gpn(y) (RS 11.839 r. 8, ORACC P503288; PRU 3 195:18, DULAT 301); gpn, Baal's messenger, gpn w ugr (KTU 1.3 III 36; DULAT 301)

## Attestations

- [HT 1](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT1/index.md>): KU-PA₃-NU 109 — devotee of Kubaba (personal name or title); rival Gupana
- [HT 3](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT3/index.md>): KU-PA₃-NU 3 — devotee of Kubaba (personal name or title); rival Gupana
- [HT 49a](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT49a/index.md>): KU-PA₃-NU 1 — devotee of Kubaba, personal name or title, 1; rival Ugaritic Gupana
- [HT 88](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT88/index.md>): KU-PA₃-NU 1 — devotee of Kubaba (personal name or title); rival Gupana
- [HT 117a](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT117a/index.md>): KU-PA₃-NU 1 — devotee of Kubaba (personal name or title); rival Gupana
- [HT 122a](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT122a/index.md>): KU-PA₃-NU 1 — devotee of Kubaba (personal name or title); rival Gupana
- [PH(?) 31a](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/PH(~3F)31a/index.md>): KU-PA₃-NU SUS+SI+RE 1

## Commentary

Kubānu 'devotee of Kubaba', masculine of KU-PA₃-NA-TU Kubānatu, the counted personnel group of HT 119 (di Mino, Ya Diktu). HT 88 sets it beside KU-PA₃-PA₃ Kubaba. Amorite has the short base with this ending, Kubb-ān-um (Gelb 1980, no. 4148), so the form need not write Kubaba's second BA. A name or title, entered once on each of HT 1, HT 3, HT 49a, HT 88, HT 117a and PH(?) 31a and twice on HT 122a. Rival: Gupana/Gupan, the Ugaritic personal name gu-pa-na (RS 11.839) and the god gpn of gpn w ugr (KTU 1.3 III 36; DULAT 301), which Gordon compares with KU for g (Gordon 1966, §142), with Linear B ku-pa-nu-we-to. HT 101.4 KU-PA₃-[…] OLE+U 2 stands in an entry-heading position and restores as KU-PA₃-[NU]. See KU-PA₃-NA-TU.

## In the onomasticon

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

## References

- Reading: di Mino, Ya Diktu; Gelb 1980, AS 21, no. 4148; Gordon 1966; DULAT; ORACC P503288; Laroche 1980; Jiménez Delgado 2024, 439; Haas 1994
- Jiménez Delgado, José Miguel (2024), Mycenaean names in -to: the Minoan component in the 2nd millennium BC through the lens of anthroponymy. In J. Bennet, A. Karnava & T. Meißner (eds.), KO-RO-NO-WE-SA: Proceedings of the 15th International Colloquium on Mycenaean Studies, Ariadne Supplement 5, pp. 433–448
- KTU: Dietrich, Manfried; Loretz, Oswald; Sanmartín, Joaquín (2013), Die keilalphabetischen Texte aus Ugarit, Ras Ibn Hani und anderen Orten / The Cuneiform Alphabetic Texts from Ugarit, Ras Ibn Hani and Other Places (KTU³). Ugarit-Verlag, Münster (Alter Orient und Altes Testament 360/1); ISBN 978-3-86835-014-2
- ORACC: Oracc Steering Committee, Oracc: The Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus. University of Pennsylvania Museum; CC BY-SA 3.0 unless otherwise stated
- Gordon, Cyrus H. (1966), Evidence for the Minoan Language. Ventnor Publishers,68
- 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
- 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
- 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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