TU-PA-DI-DA

the best of beer (compound; ṭūb 'the best of' + dida 'beer extract')

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Reading
ṭūb-dida
Confidence
Speculative
Root
*ṭayb- ‘good’ 1, ‘perfume’ 2
Kind
Commodity
Language
Semitic
Rank
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Compared forms

  • Hebrewṭûbṭûb ‘the best things of a place, country or person’ (Gen 45:18, 20, 23) (HALOT 372)
  • Amoritedi-du-um // Akk. billatum, a beer of the second kind, KAŠ.Ú.SA, read dida (George and Krebernik 2022, 120)
  • Akkadianbillatu, KAŠ.Ú.SA, a dry mixture for beer, perhaps the sweetwort; KAŠ.Ú.SA SIG₅ ‘fine b.’, among spices, condiments and fruit for the royal banquet (Iraq 14 43:122); bil-lat SIG₅-tim (CAD B 226–228)

Attestations1 cited

  1. HT 123+124bTU-PA-DI-DA J+L2the best of beer (beer extract), J+L2

Commentary

HT 123+124b .3–4 TU-PA-DI-DA J+L2, whole and undotted, on a face written over an erasure, after *188-DU 10 and before KA-NẠ[ (GORILA I 213). ṭūb ‘the best of’ in construct, PA for b, before dida, the beer extract of KAŠ.Ú.SA: fine billatu, KAŠ.Ú.SA SIG₅, as in Akkadian (CAD B 226, 228). A product among the *188 and KA-NA entries, measured in fractions. One attestation. Cf. KA-NA.

On the 3D inscriptions

Not written on any of the 82 inscriptions modelled so far.

Linear A Lexicon