TU-SU-PU₂

Teshub (Hurrian storm god theophoric PN)

𐘹TUAB6939 entries𐘲SUAB5828 entries𐘜PU₂AB296 entries
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Reading
Tešub
Confidence
Candidate
Root
—
Kind
Personal name
Language
Hurrian
Rank
—

Compared forms

  • HurrianTeššub/Tešub ‘storm god’—supreme deity of Hurrian pantheon (Laroche 1980, 263; Hittite Tarhunt)
  • HittiteTarhunna (functional equivalent)
  • Ugaritictṯb, the Hurrian storm god in Ugaritic texts (DULAT 870)
  • Linear ATE-SU predicted form

Attestations1 cited

  1. HT 49aTU-SU-PU₂ 1Teshub (Hurrian theophoric personal name), 1

Commentary

HT 49a, a personnel register: TU-SU-PU₂ 1, beside KU-PA₃-NU, TA-NA-TI and eight other names. Hurrian Tešub, the storm god, as a theophoric name: TU-SU-PU₂ writes t-s-b, with PU₂ for b. Faience and cylinder seals show Hurrian contact. Weak point: one attestation.

On the 3D inscriptions

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

Linear A Lexicon