# SE-SA-PA₃ (Zizapa)

> Zizapa (Hurrian personal name), ziz- 'chest'; rival Amorite ʿIziz-ab

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

- Reading: Zizapa
- Confidence: Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once.
- Kind: Personal name
- Language: Hurrian
- Signs: SE (se) · SA (sa) · PA₃ (pa₃)

## Compared forms

- Hurrian: Mari Zizap(-)a, zi-za-ba (VHN 277), Zizapān, zi-za-ba-an, ziz=a=b=ān (Sasson 1974, 372; ARM XVI/1, 244); Zizi, ziz=i 'Chest' (Monti 2017, 319)
- Amorite: ¹IZIZ-AB, ʿIziz-ab, the rival (Gelb 1980, no. 2677)

## Attestations

- [PH 2](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/PH2/index.md>): SE-SA-PA₃ 60 — Zizapa (Hurrian personal name), 60; rival Amorite ʿIziz-ab

## Commentary

PH 2 .4 SE-SA-PA₃ 60, the last entry before the break, intact and undotted (GORILA I 288–289). Mari Zizap(-)a, zi-za-ba (VHN 277), and Zizapān, ziz=a=b=ān (ARM XVI/1, 244), on the stem ziz- of Zizi, ziz=i 'Chest' (Monti 2017, 319). Sign for sign, PA₃ for b, SE for zi. Same tablet as A-SE-TU-*21F Aštuḫḫa. Rival: Amorite ʿIziz-ab (Gelb 1980, no. 2677), ʿzz + ʾab, with the initial unwritten. One witness.

## In the onomasticon

- [SE-SA-PA₃](<https://linear-a.ai/names/SE-SA-PA~E2~82~83/index.md>): Personal name, Hurrian

## References

- Reading: di Mino; Monti 2017
- Sasson, Jack M. (1974), Hurrians and Hurrian Names in the Mari Texts. Ugarit-Forschungen,6,353ff.
- AS 21: Gelb, Ignace J. (1980), Computer-aided Analysis of Amorite. Assyriological Studies 21,The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago
- 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
- Monti, Luciano Esteban (2017), A Systematic Approach to the Hurrian Pantheon: The Onomastic Evidence. PhD dissertation, Università degli Studi di Udine (XXVIII cycle)

---

Page: https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/SE-SA-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.