# TU-SU-PU₂ (Tešub)

> Teshub (Hurrian storm god theophoric PN)

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

- Reading: Tešub
- Confidence: Candidate. A comparison worth testing; the evidence is thin or the word is rare.
- Kind: Personal name
- Language: Hurrian
- Signs: TU (tu) · SU (su) · PU₂ (pu₂)

## Compared forms

- Hurrian: Teššub/Tešub 'storm god'—supreme deity of Hurrian pantheon (Laroche 1980, 263; Hittite Tarhunt)
- Hittite: Tarhunna (functional equivalent)
- Ugaritic: tṯb, the Hurrian storm god in Ugaritic texts (DULAT 870)
- Linear A: TE-SU predicted form

## Attestations

- [HT 49a](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT49a/index.md>): TU-SU-PU₂ 1 — Teshub (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.

## In the onomasticon

- [TU-SU-PU₂](<https://linear-a.ai/names/TU-SU-PU~E2~82~82/index.md>): Personal name, Hurrian

## References

- Reading: di Mino
- GLH: Laroche, Emmanuel (1980), Glossaire de la langue hourrite. Editions Klincksieck
- DULAT: del Olmo Lete, Gregorio; Sanmartín, Joaquín (2015), A Dictionary of the Ugaritic Language in the Alphabetic Tradition. Brill, Leiden/Boston (Handbook of Oriental Studies 1/112); Third Revised Edition, tr. and ed. Wilfred G.E. Watson; 2 parts

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