# SU-PU₂ (Ṣubʾu)

> Ṣubʾu (personal name); rival ṣābu 'workers, troop'

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

- Reading: Ṣubʾu
- Confidence: Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once.
- Root: [\*ṣbw](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/3456/index.md>) 'to wish, desire'
- Kind: Personal name
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: SU (su) · PU₂ (pu₂)

## Compared forms

- Amorite: ṢUBUʾ-UM, ZU-BU-U₂-UM and ZU-BU-UM (Gelb 1980, nos. 6581–6582)
- Eblaite: zu-bu₃, zu-bu₁₆ (Pagan 1998, rows 5264–5265)

## Attestations

- [HT 63](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT63/index.md>): SU-PU₂

## Commentary

HT 63 .1 SU-PU₂, whole and undotted, the third entry under *305 · TE 1, after KA-TI 1, against the tablet's upper right corner; no numeral survives, and GORILA's normalized line brackets the end, SU-PU₂[ (GORILA I 118–119). ṣu-bu, PU₂ for bu as in DU-PU₂-RE dubur, the final ʾu unwritten as in TA-PA tappāʾu: the Amorite name Ṣubʾu (Gelb 1980, nos. 6581–6582). Linear B su-po (KN Dc 5812) and su-pu-wo (KN C 912) are men's names at Knossos (DMic II 304). Cf. HT 8b .1 SU-PU₂-*188 1. Rival: ṣābu 'workers, troop' (PS *ṣ̂Vbaʾ-), a collective under the personnel sign *305. One witness.

## In the onomasticon

- [SU-PU₂](<https://linear-a.ai/names/SU-PU~E2~82~82/index.md>): Personal name, Semitic

## References

- Reading: di Mino; Gelb 1980; Pagan 1998; DMic II
- AS 21: Gelb, Ignace J. (1980), Computer-aided Analysis of Amorite. Assyriological Studies 21,The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago
- DMic II: Aura Jorro, Francisco, Diccionario Micénico, vol. II (CSIC 1993). 
- Pagan, Joseph M. (1998), Ebla Electronic Corpus: Onomastic Data Base. Undena Publications (1998 disk); HTML edition by G. Buccellati, IIMAS / Cybernetica Mesopotamica (2012)
- 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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