# KU-RA (kulla)

> in all, total (accounting term), the -a form of KU-RO kull; rival a recipient

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

- Reading: kulla
- Confidence: Candidate. A comparison worth testing; the evidence is thin or the word is rare.
- Root: [\*kʷall-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/2418/index.md>) 'all' 1, 'to complete, make perfect' 2, 'to surround, encircle; to crown' 3
- Kind: Administrative
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: KU (ku) · RA (ra)

## Compared forms

- Amorite: be-el-ku-ul-la, ab-du-ku-ul-lim, ia-mu-ut-ku-lu-ú (GlOS 1, 305)
- Akkadian: *kalu* — kalu (kulu) 'whole, entirety, all'; OA nom. kulu, acc. kala, gen. kili (CAD K 87)
- Eblaite: *gú-lu-ma kull=um=ma* — gú-lu-ma kull=um=ma 'totality' (GlOS 1, 305)

## Attestations

- [ARKH 2](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/ARKH2/index.md>): KU-RA \*131B 5 — in all (total), the -a form of KU-RO kull; rival a recipient
- [ZA 20](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/ZA20/index.md>): KU-RA 130 — in all (total), 130

## Commentary

ZA 20 .4 KU-RA 130, the last line of the text, .5 vacant; the tablet is broken above, and .1–3 keep 26 (GORILA III 193). A totaling word for Younger (Linear A Texts, ZA 20) and for Raison and Pope, Meriggi and Brice (Schoep 2002, 162). ARKH 2 .1–2 SI-DA-TE KU-RA *131B 5, 'provisions in all: must 5', at the head, over A-SI-DA-TO-I 12, ZU-*301-SE-DE-*21F-*118 6 and A-SU-PU-WA 4, which carry no logogram (GORILA III 6–7). kulla, the -a form of KU-RO kull: Amorite be-el-ku-ul-la (GlOS 1, 305); Old Assyrian nom. kulu, acc. kala (CAD K 87). RA for la, as RO for lu in KU-RO. Rival: a recipient, as ZA 10b DU-RE-ZA-SE *131B 5; the Alalakh place Ku-ra (AT 238:4, 66:17; Wiseman 1953, 155). Weak point: ARKH 2's must 5 stands against the 22 under it (12, 6, 4), so the total rests on ZA 20, broken above. Two witnesses, two sites. See KU-RO.

## Same root

- [KU-RO](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/KU-RO/index.md>) (kull)
- [PO-TO-KU-RO](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/PO-TO-KU-RO/index.md>) (batkull)
- [KU](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/KU/index.md>) (kull)
- [KU-RE-JU](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/KU-RE-JU/index.md>) (Kulelu)

## References

- Reading: di Mino; GlOS 1; CAD K; Younger; Schoep 2002
- CAD K: Oriental Institute (A. Leo Oppenheim and Erica Reiner, eds.) (1971), The Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, vol. 8, K. The Oriental Institute, Chicago; J. J. Augustin, Glückstadt
- GORILA III: Godart, Louis; Olivier, Jean-Pierre (1976), Recueil des inscriptions en linéaire A, volume 3: Tablettes, nodules et rondelles édités en 1975 et 1976 (GORILA III). École française d'Athènes (Études crétoises XXI, 3); Librairie orientaliste Paul Geuthner, Paris
- AIT: Wiseman, D. J. (1953), The Alalakh Tablets. British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara, London (Occasional Publications 2)
- GlOS 1: Sanmartín, Joaquín (2019), A Glossary of Old Syrian, Volume 1: ʔ – ḳ. Languages of the Ancient Near East 8/1,Eisenbrauns (Pennsylvania State University Press), University Park
- Schoep, Ilse (2002), The Administration of Neopalatial Crete: A Critical Assessment of the Linear A Tablets and Their Role in the Administrative Process. Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca (Minos Suplemento 17)

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