# TU-PA-DI-DA (ṭūb-dida)

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

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

- Reading: ṭūb-dida
- Confidence: Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once.
- Root: [\*ṭayb-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/2494/index.md>) 'good' 1, 'perfume' 2
- Kind: Commodity
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: TU (tu) · PA (pa) · DI (di) · DA (da)

## Compared forms

- Hebrew: *ṭûb* — ṭûb 'the best things of a place, country or person' (Gen 45:18, 20, 23) (HALOT 372)
- Amorite: di-du-um // Akk. billatum, a beer of the second kind, KAŠ.Ú.SA, read dida (George and Krebernik 2022, 120)
- Akkadian: billatu, 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)

## Attestations

- [HT 123+124b](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT123~2B124b/index.md>): TU-PA-DI-DA J+L2 — the 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.

## Same root

- [OLE+TA](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/OLE~2BTA/index.md>) (ṭābu)
- [DA-I-PI-TA](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/DA-I-PI-TA/index.md>) (Ṭayyibat)

## References

- Reading: di Mino; HALOT; George and Krebernik 2022; CAD B
- George, Andrew R.; Krebernik, Manfred (2022), Two Remarkable Vocabularies: Amorite-Akkadian Bilinguals!. Revue d'assyriologie et d'archéologie orientale,116,Presses Universitaires de France,113–166
- HALOT: Koehler, Ludwig; Baumgartner, Walter; Stamm, Johann Jakob; Richardson, M. E. J. (trans. and ed.) (1994), The Hebrew and Aramaic Lexicon of the Old Testament, vols. I–IV. E. J. Brill, Leiden · New York · Köln
- CAD B: Oriental Institute (A. Leo Oppenheim and Erica Reiner, eds.) (1965), The Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, vol. 2, B. The Oriental Institute, Chicago; J. J. Augustin, Glückstadt
- 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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