# KU-PA₃-RI-JA (Kubariya)

> Kubariya, a town of Ugarit, (wool) of Kubariya: a section heading; rival Gubliya 'the Byblian'

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

- Reading: Kubariya
- Confidence: Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once.
- Root: Kubariya (Pre-Greek)
- Kind: Toponym
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: KU (ku) · PA₃ (pa₃) · RI (ri) · JA (ja)

## Compared forms

- Ugaritic: kbry, a town of Ugarit, syllabic URU ku-ba-ri-ia-a, RS 25.455 A+B I 4 (DULAT 424)
- Akkadian: Kubariyā (RGTC 12/2, 165)

## Attestations

- [HT 24a](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT24a/index.md>): KU-PA₃-RI-JA KI-MA+RU-\[ — section heading—(wool) of Kubariya, a town of Ugarit; rival Gubliya 'the Byblian'

## Commentary

HT 24a .1 KU-PA₃-RI-JA · KI-MA+RU[, the heading of a wool inventory; PA-SA-RI-JA heads the second section at .4. Kubariya, a town of the kingdom of Ugarit: alphabetic kbry (KTU 4.800 II 18), syllabic URU ku-ba-ri-ia-a in the town list RS 25.455A+ I 4, as van Soldt reads it, where Arnaud read URU šu-ma-ri-a (DULAT 424; RGTC 12/2, 165). KU-PA₃-RI-JA writes ku-ba-ri-ia sign for sign, PA₃ for b. The same list names Baṣīru at I 10 (RGTC 12/2, 53). Rival: Gubliya 'the Byblian', Gubla with the gentilic -iya: Amorite GUBL-AJ-I and GUBL-AJIT-UM (Gelb 1980, nos. 1793–1795); Akkadian Gublaya 'Byblian' at Ugarit (ORACC P503838); Hebrew gibli 'Gebalite'; Ugaritic gbl 'Byblos' (DULAT 290), with RI for l. One document.

## In the onomasticon

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

## References

- Reading: di Mino; DULAT; RGTC 12/2
- 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
- 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
- RGTC 12/2: Belmonte Marín, Juan Antonio (2001), Die Orts- und Gewässernamen der Texte aus Syrien im 2. Jt. v. Chr.. Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag, Wiesbaden (Répertoire Géographique des Textes Cunéiformes 12/2; Beihefte zum Tübinger Atlas des Vorderen Orients B 7/12/2)

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