TA-PA

partners, the heading of a shares account

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Reading
tappāʾu
Confidence
Speculative
Root
*tappāʾ- ‘partner, colleague, friend, companion’
Kind
Personnel
Language
Semitic
Rank
—

Compared forms

  • Akkadiantappû, tappāu ‘partner, colleague … business partner’; Bogh. and Alalakh tappûtu (CAD T 184)
  • Eblaiteda-ba-u₃ tappāʾuda-ba-u₃ tappāʾu ‘comrade’, a personal name (Pagan 1998, row 1378)

Attestations1 cited

  1. HT 1043DTA-PA *505partners, the heading of a shares account

Commentary

HT 104 .1 TA-PA · *505 ·, heading three entries, DA-KU-SE-NE-TI 45½, I-DU-TI 20½ and PA-DA-SU-TI 29, whose sum is KU-RO 95 (GORILA I 170–171). ta-pa(ʾu) on primary values, the geminate and final ʾu unwritten: the partners in a divided account, as Akk. tappû ‘business partner’ (CAD T 184). Rival: ṭap ‘children’ (PS *ṭap-), TA writing ṭ. One witness.

On the 3D inscriptions1 inscription

HT 104Haghia Triadata-pa…
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