# TA-PA (tappāʾu) > partners, the heading of a shares account A Linear A word in the Linear A Lexicon. The reading is a proposal and carries its tier. - Reading: tappāʾu - Confidence: Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once. - Root: [\*tappāʾ-]() 'partner, colleague, friend, companion' - Kind: Personnel - Language: Semitic - Signs: TA (ta) · PA (pa) ## Compared forms - Akkadian: tappû, tappāu 'partner, colleague … business partner'; Bogh. and Alalakh tappûtu (CAD T 184) - Eblaite: *da-ba-u₃ tappāʾu* — da-ba-u₃ tappāʾu 'comrade', a personal name (Pagan 1998, row 1378) ## Attestations - [HT 104](): TA-PA \*505 — partners, 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. ## In the onomasticon - [TA-PA](): Title, Semitic ## References - Reading: di Mino; CAD T - Pagan, Joseph M. (1998), Ebla Electronic Corpus: Onomastic Data Base. Undena Publications (1998 disk); HTML edition by G. Buccellati, IIMAS / Cybernetica Mesopotamica (2012) - CAD T: Oriental Institute (Erica Reiner, ed.) (2006), The Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, vol. 18, T. The Oriental Institute, 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 --- Page: https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/TA-PA/ 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.