QA-QA-DA

head, top, capital (Akkadian qaqqadu(m))

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Reading: qaqqadu
Confidence: Speculative
Root: *ḳVdḳVd- ‘skull, head’
Kind: Body part
Language: Semitic
Rank: —

Compared forms

Akkadianqaqqaduqaqqadu ‘head; top; original amount, principal’ (CAD Q 100, 108–109)
Hebrewקָדְקֹדqodqōdqodqōd (קָדְקֹד) ‘crown of the head’ (Gen 49:26)
Ugaritic𐎖𐎄𐎖𐎄qdqdqdqd ‘skull, crown’ (DULAT 684)

Attestations1 cited

PE 2QA-QA-DA ¹⁄₂

Commentary

PE 2, among fractional entries: A-RI-PA ¼, QA-QA-DA ½, TO-ME ⅓. QA-QA-DA writes qaqqada, the geminate unmarked, as QA-QA-RU qaqqaru. Akk. qaqqadu ‘head; original amount, principal’ (CAD Q 100, 109). Rival: a personal name, as on the neighbouring entries: Qaqqadum (Old Babylonian, ORACC rimanum), Amorite qa-aq-qa-da-an, Ebla ga-ga-da-nu (GlOS 1, 340). One attestation.

On the 3D inscriptions

Not written on any of the 82 inscriptions modelled so far.