# QE-PU (qēpu)

> official, commissioner (title); rival: the personal name Qīpu

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

- Reading: qēpu
- Confidence: Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once.
- Root: [\*ḳīp-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/3850/index.md>) 'official, administrator'
- Kind: Personnel
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: QE (qe) · PU (pu)

## Compared forms

- Akkadian: qīpu (qēpu) s. 'official; administrator of a region, a city, a temple', from MB on, Ass. qēpu, lex. LÚ qe-e-pu (CAD Q 264); qīpu adj. 'trustworthy, trusted (person)' (CAD Q 263); qiāpu 'to believe, trust'
- Nuzi: QĪPU, Ki-pu, slave of the palace (Gelb, Purves, and MacRae 1943, 88)

## Attestations

- [HT 9a](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT9a/index.md>): QE-PU 2 — official, commissioner; rival: the personal name Qīpu
- [HT 9b](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT9b/index.md>): QE-PU 2 — official, commissioner; rival: the personal name Qīpu

## Commentary

HT 9a and 9b, the wine roster: QE-PU 2 on both faces, one of two entries unchanged (with DI-NA-U 4) while the total falls from 31¾ to 24 (GORILA I 19). QE writes q and the Assyrian ē, PU the -pu. An Akkadian title, qīpu (qēpu) 'official' (CAD Q 264), in a recipient slot beside the names Padī and Dīnāyu. Rival: the name Qīpu.

## In the onomasticon

- [QE-PU](<https://linear-a.ai/names/QE-PU/index.md>): Title, Semitic

## References

- Reading: di Mino; CAD Q
- NPN: Gelb, Ignace J.; Purves, Pierre M.; MacRae, Allan A. (1943), Nuzi Personal Names. Oriental Institute Publications 57, University of Chicago
- CAD Q: Oriental Institute (Erica Reiner, ed.) (1982), The Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, vol. 13, Q. The Oriental Institute, Chicago; J. J. Augustin, Glückstadt
- GORILA I: Godart, Louis; Olivier, Jean-Pierre (1976), Recueil des inscriptions en linéaire A, volume 1: Tablettes éditées avant 1970 (GORILA I). École française d'Athènes (Études crétoises XXI, 1); Librairie orientaliste Paul Geuthner, Paris

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