# SU-PU₂-\*188 (sapu buṭni)

> bowl of terebinth (pistachio) nuts (commodity measured in bowl-units)

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

- Reading: sapu buṭni
- Confidence: Candidate. A comparison worth testing; the evidence is thin or the word is rare.
- Root: [\*sapp-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/311/index.md>) 'kind of vessel'
- Kind: Commodity
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: SU (su) · PU₂ (pu₂) · \*188

## Compared forms

- Hebrew: בָּטְנִים *boṭnîm* — boṭnîm (בָּטְנִים) 'pistachio nuts' (HALOT 121; Gen 43:11)
- Ugaritic: 𐎁𐎉𐎎 *bṭm* — bṭm 'pistachio' (DULAT 249)
- Phoenician: 𐤎𐤐 *sp* — sp 'cup, bowl' (see SU-PU)

## Attestations

- [HT 8b](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT8b/index.md>): SU-PU₂-\*188 1 — bowl of terebinth (pistachio) nuts (product)

## Commentary

HT 8b .1 SU-PU₂-*188 1, heading the list, before PA₃-*188 2 and QA-*310-I 1⅜ (Haghia Triada, Villa Magazine). SU-PU₂ sapu 'bowl, basin' (see SU-PU) with the commodity *188 buṭnu 'terebinth' (CAD B 358): Heb. boṭnîm 'pistachio nuts' (Gen 43:11; HALOT 121), Ug. bṭm 'pistachio' (DULAT 249); one bowl of terebinth nuts. SU-PU₂ alone on HT 63, under the personnel sign *305, is the name Ṣubʾu, a homograph; here it is bound to *188, as PA₃ is in PA₃-*188. See *188 and PA₃-*188.

## Same root

- [SU-PU](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/SU-PU/index.md>) (sapu)

## References

- Reading: di Mino; CAD B; HALOT; DULAT
- 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
- 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
- CAD B: Oriental Institute (A. Leo Oppenheim and Erica Reiner, eds.) (1965), The Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, vol. 2, B. The Oriental Institute, Chicago; J. J. Augustin, Glückstadt

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