ZU-JU-PU₂

flute; here the flute-player, the trade of TU-QE-NU Tuqnu; rival Hurrian Tulbiya

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Reading
ṯulpu
Confidence
Candidate
Root
*ṯulp- ‘stalk, reed’ 1, ‘reed flute’ 2
Kind
Occupation
Language
Semitic
Rank
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Compared forms

  • Ugaritic𐎘𐎍𐎁ṯlbṯlb ‘flute’, b knr w b ṯlb ‘with the lyre and the flute’ (KTU 1.108:4; DULAT 892)
  • Akkadianšulpušulpu ‘stalk, a flute or other reed instrument’; ša šulpi ‘a reed-instrument player’ (CAD Š/3 256–57)
  • Hurriantlby, syll. tu-ul-bi-ia, PN (DULAT 856), rival

Attestations1 cited

  1. HT 25aZU-JU-PU₂ 1the flute-player, Tuqnu's trade, 1; rival Hurrian Tulbiya

Commentary

HT 25a .3–4 TU-QE-NU / ZU-JU-PU₂ 1, the layout of .4–5 DU-RU-WI / I-KI-RA 1: a name at the line end, then the trade and one unit (GORILA I 44–45). ṯu-lu-pu sign for sign: ZU writes ṯu, JU lu, PU₂ pu, *ṯulp- ‘reed flute’. Ugaritic ṯlb ‘flute’, beside knr, tp and mṣltm (KTU 1.108:4; DULAT 892). Akk. šulpu ‘a flute or other reed instrument’ and ša šulpi ‘a reed-instrument player’, listed after ša malilim and ša enbūbim (OB Lu A 244) and written after a name, PN ša šu-ul-pi (MDP 22 21 r. 10) (CAD Š/3 256–57). GORILA’s tabular copy dots ZU and PU₂, and the left margin beside ZU is abraded. Rival: the Hurrian name tlby, tu-ul-bi-ia (DULAT 856), which needs ZU = tu. One witness.

On the 3D inscriptions

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

Linear A Lexicon