# TU-NU (Tunu)

> Tunu (Hurrian personal name, owner's name on a double axe)

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

- Reading: Tunu
- Confidence: Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once.
- Kind: Personal name
- Language: Hurrian
- Signs: TU (tu) · NU (nu)

## Compared forms

- Hurrian: *element tun-* — element tun- 'H.', cf. tu-u-ni, du-u-ni (KUB XXV 44, 45) (NPN 269); Nuzi TUN-TEŠUP, Du-un-te-šu-up, var. Du-un-te-šup, f. of Arbi (NPN 158)
- Middle Assyrian: Tunuya, tu-nu-ia (MARV 9 95, Aššur)

## Attestations

- [KA Zf 1](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/KAZf1/index.md>): TU-NU — Tunu (Hurrian personal name), the owner

## Commentary

KA Zf 1, a bronze double axe from Kardamoutsa (BM 1954,10-20.1), TU and NU · on either side of the shaft hole, whole and undotted (GORILA IV 149). tu-nu on primary values: the Hurrian element tun- (NPN 269), as in the Nuzi name Tun-tešup (NPN 158). One witness.

## In the onomasticon

- [TU-NU](<https://linear-a.ai/names/TU-NU/index.md>): Personal name, Hurrian

## References

- Reading: di Mino; NPN
- NPN: Gelb, Ignace J.; Purves, Pierre M.; MacRae, Allan A. (1943), Nuzi Personal Names. Oriental Institute Publications 57, University of Chicago
- GORILA IV: Godart, Louis; Olivier, Jean-Pierre (1982), Recueil des inscriptions en linéaire A, volume 4: Autres documents (GORILA IV). École française d'Athènes (Études crétoises XXI, 4); Librairie orientaliste Paul Geuthner, Paris

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