# SE-KU-TU (Šakūtu)

> personal name, 'Calm, at rest'; rival Zakūtu 'pure, innocent'

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

- Reading: Šakūtu
- Confidence: Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once.
- Root: [\*škt](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/3250/index.md>) 'to be silent, quiet; to rest'
- Kind: Personal name
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: SE (se) · KU (ku) · TU (tu)

## Compared forms

- Akkadian: *sakātu* — sakātu 'to be silent' (CAD S 74)
- Amorite: Ya-ās-qī-iṭ-AN, 'rest' in a name, where Huffmon allows skt 'be calm' (Huffmon, APNM 253)
- Eblaite: *ḏakūtu* — za-ku-tu /ḏakūtu/ 'innocent' (Pagan 1998, row 5026), rival, PS *zVkVy-

## Attestations

- [HT 115a](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT115a/index.md>): SE-KU-TU ¹⁄₂ — personal name, 'Calm, at rest'; rival Zakūtu 'pure, innocent'

## Commentary

HT 115a .3 SE-KU-TU ½, between NA-*21F-NE-MI-NA 1 and PA-RA-NE 1, a recipient (GORILA I 188–189). šakūt-u, a qatūl adjective of √š-k-t 'be quiet, rest' (PS *škt), on primary values: Hebrew hasket 'be quiet' (Deut 27:9; HALOT 756), Akkadian sakātu 'be silent' (CAD S 74). Rival: Zakūtu 'pure, innocent', the Ebla name za-ku-tu (Pagan 1998, row 5026) and the Neo-Assyrian queen Zakūtu, which needs SE for ḏ where the lexicon writes z with the Z signs. One witness.

## In the onomasticon

- [SE-KU-TU](<https://linear-a.ai/names/SE-KU-TU/index.md>): Personal name, Semitic

## References

- Reading: di Mino; HALOT; CAD S; Huffmon 1965; Pagan 1998
- APNM: Huffmon, Herbert B. (1965), Amorite Personal Names in the Mari Texts: A Structural and Lexical Study. The Johns Hopkins Press, Baltimore
- HALOT: Koehler, Ludwig; Baumgartner, Walter; Stamm, Johann Jakob; Richardson, M. E. J. (trans. and ed.) (1994), The Hebrew and Aramaic Lexicon of the Old Testament, vols. I–IV. E. J. Brill, Leiden · New York · Köln
- Pagan, Joseph M. (1998), Ebla Electronic Corpus: Onomastic Data Base. Undena Publications (1998 disk); HTML edition by G. Buccellati, IIMAS / Cybernetica Mesopotamica (2012)
- CAD S: Oriental Institute (Erica Reiner, ed.) (1984), The Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, vol. 15, S. 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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