# PO-TO-KU-RO (batkull)

> grandtotal (lit. 'daughter of all')

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

- Reading: batkull
- Confidence: Probable. Fits the word’s contexts and has a close external comparison, without an independent control.
- Root: [\*bint-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/K0016/index.md>) 'daughter' + [\*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: PO (po) · TO (to) · KU (ku) · RO (ro)
- Rank: #26 of the top 100

## Compared forms

- Hebrew: בַּת כֹּל bat kol 'daughter of all', Gordon's reconstruction in Hebrew script (Gordon 1966 §118); Hebrew bat 'daughter', kōl 'all'
- Akkadian: *kullatu* — kullatu 'all, totality' (CAD K 504)

## Attestations

- [HT 122b](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT122b/index.md>): PO-TO-KU-RO 97 — grand total
- [HT 131b](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT131b/index.md>): PO-TO-KU-RO 452 ¹⁄₂ — grand total (lit. 'daughter of all')

## Commentary

HT 122b: PO-TO-KU-RO 97 follows KU-RO 65, a grand total over the subtotal, summed across both faces: HT 122a KU-RO 31 + KU-DA 1 + HT 122b KU-RO 65 = 97 (Schrijver 2014, 4). Gordon reads bat kol, bat 'daughter' with kol 'all', 'daughter of all', the grand total, deriving po-to from *butt- < *bunt-, the feminine of Ugaritic bun- 'son' (Gordon 1966 §118); the skeleton p-t-k-r gives bt with kr, the vowels dead. The structure is that of KU-RO kull 'total'.

## Same root

- [KU-RO](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/KU-RO/index.md>) (kull)
- [KU](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/KU/index.md>) (kull)
- [KU-RA](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/KU-RA/index.md>) (kulla)
- [KU-RE-JU](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/KU-RE-JU/index.md>) (Kulelu)
- [PA-NA-TU](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/PA-NA-TU/index.md>) (banātu / panātu / (Ku)bānatu)

## References

- Reading: Gordon 1966 §118; Schrijver 2014
- Gordon, Cyrus H. (1966), Evidence for the Minoan Language. Ventnor Publishers,68
- 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
- Schrijver, Peter (2014), Fractions and food rations in Linear A. Kadmos,53 (1–2),Walter de Gruyter,1–44

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