# ZU-JU-PU₂ (ṯulpu)

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

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

- Reading: ṯulpu
- Confidence: Candidate. A comparison worth testing; the evidence is thin or the word is rare.
- Root: [\*ṯulp-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/3787/index.md>) 'stalk, reed' 1, 'reed flute' 2
- Kind: Occupation
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: ZU (zu) · JU (ju) · PU₂ (pu₂)

## Compared forms

- Ugaritic: 𐎘𐎍𐎁 *ṯlb* — ṯlb 'flute', b knr w b ṯlb 'with the lyre and the flute' (KTU 1.108:4; DULAT 892)
- Akkadian: *šulpu* — šulpu 'stalk, a flute or other reed instrument'; ša šulpi 'a reed-instrument player' (CAD Š/3 256–57)
- Hurrian: tlby, syll. tu-ul-bi-ia, PN (DULAT 856), rival

## Attestations

- [HT 25a](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT25a/index.md>): ZU-JU-PU₂ 1 — the 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.

## In the onomasticon

- [ZU-JU-PU₂](<https://linear-a.ai/names/ZU-JU-PU~E2~82~82/index.md>): Title, Semitic

## References

- Reading: di Mino; DULAT; CAD Š
- KTU: Dietrich, Manfried; Loretz, Oswald; Sanmartín, Joaquín (2013), Die keilalphabetischen Texte aus Ugarit, Ras Ibn Hani und anderen Orten / The Cuneiform Alphabetic Texts from Ugarit, Ras Ibn Hani and Other Places (KTU³). Ugarit-Verlag, Münster (Alter Orient und Altes Testament 360/1); ISBN 978-3-86835-014-2
- 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
- CAD Š/3: Oriental Institute (Erica Reiner, ed.) (1992), The Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, vol. 17, Š, part 3. 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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