# QA-PA₃ (qubaʿ) > goblet, cup (vessel term on HT31 inventory) A Linear A word in the Linear A Lexicon. The reading is a proposal and carries its tier. - Reading: qubaʿ - Confidence: Probable. Fits the word’s contexts and has a close external comparison, without an independent control. - Root: [\*ḳab-]() 'goblet' - Kind: Vessel - Language: Semitic - Signs: QA (qa) · PA₃ (pa₃) - Rank: #37 of the top 100 ## Compared forms - Emar: qú-pa-ḫu, qu-bá-ḫu ZABAR qubbaʿ 'cup, goblet', written with PA (GlOS 1, 338) - Ugaritic: 𐎖𐎁𐎓𐎚 *qbʿt* — qbʿt 'goblet' (DULAT 681) ## Attestations - [HT 31](): \*402-VS-QA-PA₃ 10 — goblet, cup ## Commentary HT 31: written on the *402-VS vessel logogram, quantity 10, one of Gordon's four vessel words on the tablet (Gordon 1966 §115). PA₃ writes ba: Heb. qubaʿat (קֻבַּעַת) 'goblet, cup' (Isa 51:17, 22), a vessel term with an original b, the ʿayin unwritten. Rival: Gordon's qa-pa kappu (√k-p-p 'palm, vessel'; §115), whose geminate pp resists the voicing PA₃ would need. One attestation. ## References - Reading: Gordon 1966 §115; di Mino; GlOS 1; DULAT; cf. Stieglitz (Kadmos 10, 1971, 111) who proposed Akkadian qapūtu / Hebrew qūpāh as alternative - Gordon, Cyrus H. (1966), Evidence for the Minoan Language. Ventnor Publishers,68 - Stieglitz, Robert R. (1971), Minoan Vessel Names. Kadmos,10,110–112 - 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 - 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 --- Page: https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/QA-PA~E2~82~83/ Licence: CC BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Cite as: di Mino, Tom. 2026. Linear A Lexicon. Plasma AI. https://linear-a.ai/. Data: kaphtor, commit add28e94.