# U-\*325-ZA (ʾubūs(a))

> the stall, storehouse

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

- Reading: ʾubūs(a)
- Confidence: Candidate. A comparison worth testing; the evidence is thin or the word is rare.
- Root: [\*ʾabūs-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/1336/index.md>) 'warehouse, manger'
- Kind: Administrative
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: U (u) · \*325 · ZA (za)

## Compared forms

- Akkadian: *abūsu* — abūsu 'storehouse', pl. abūsātu, ubsātu (CAD A/1 92); bēl abūsi 'overseer of the storehouse', Ras Shamra (CAD A/1 93)
- Hebrew: אֵבוּס *ʾēbûs* — ʾēbûs (אֵבוּס) 'crib, manger, stall' (HALOT 4; Isa 1:3, Prov 14:4)
- Ugaritic: *ỉbsn* — ỉbsn 'warehouse' (GlOS 1, 6)

## Attestations

- [HT 10a](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT10a/index.md>): U-\*325-ZA 4 — the stall, storehouse, 4
- [HT 85a](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT85a/index.md>): U-\*325-ZA 6 — stall or storehouse (PS *ʾabūs-), a standing unit like DA-RE

## Commentary

HT 10a U-*325-ZA 4 and U-*325-ZA 14, two issues; HT 85a U-*325-ZA 6 among the men under A-DU, beside DA-RI-DA and DA-RE, the pattern of a standing unit. With *325 read bu, and PS *s = [ts] taking the Z-series, ʾubūs(a) 'the stall, storehouse': Akk. abūsu 'storehouse', plural abūsātu and ubsātu (CAD A/1 92); the U-/A- onset against A-*325-ZA (PE 2) matches ubsātu beside abūsātu. At Ras Shamra a bēl abūsi 'overseer of the storehouse' receives goods (RS 17.382+:45; CAD A/1 93). Rival: *325 = /ḫu/, ʾuḫuzza(t) 'holding' (Heb. ʾăḥuzzâ, HALOT 32), with ZA for PS *ḏ. Two attestations. See A-*325-ZA.

## Rival readings

- Wattaza: Anatolian personal name (Lallname + -za), contingent on *325 = /at/.

## Same root

- [A-\*325-ZA](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/A-*325-ZA/index.md>) (ʾabūs(a))

## References

- Reading: di Mino; CAD A/1; HALOT; GlOS 1
- 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 A/1: Oriental Institute (A. Leo Oppenheim, ed.) (1964), The Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, vol. A/1. Oriental Institute, Chicago; J. J. Augustin, Glückstadt
- GlOS 1: Sanmartín, Joaquín (2019), A Glossary of Old Syrian, Volume 1: ʔ – ḳ. Languages of the Ancient Near East 8/1,Eisenbrauns (Pennsylvania State University Press), University Park

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