# ZU-SU (Ṣūṣu)

> personal name, 'chick'

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

- Reading: Ṣūṣu
- Confidence: Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once.
- Root: [\*ṣūṣ-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/1146/index.md>) 'chick' 1, 'kind of bird' 2
- Kind: Personal name
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: ZU (zu) · SU (su)

## Compared forms

- Eblaite: zu-zu, PN, ṣūṣu 'chicken' (Pagan 1998, row 5285; ARET 8 525, ARET 20 22)
- Mari: Zuzu, king of Apum (FM V, 286)

## Attestations

- [HT 1](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT1/index.md>): ZU-SU 70 — personal name; compare Ugaritic {m}zu-zu; rival an institutional name

## Commentary

HT 1 .2 ZU-SU 70, whole and undotted, the second entry under QE-RA₂-U, after KI-RO 197 and before DỊ-DI-ZA-KE 52 (GORILA I 3). The personal name zu-zu at Ebla, read ṣūṣu 'chicken' (Pagan 1998, row 5285), and at Late Bronze Ugarit (RSO 7, 3, lower edge 3; ORACC P347841). SU writes ṣ as usual, ZU as ZA does in TU-MI-TI-ZA-SE. Rivals: an opaque Zuzu, with SU for z; an institutional name in the same quantified slot. One document.

## In the onomasticon

- [ZU-SU](<https://linear-a.ai/names/ZU-SU/index.md>): Personal name, Semitic

## References

- Reading: di Mino; Pagan 1998; FM V
- ORACC: Oracc Steering Committee, Oracc: The Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus. University of Pennsylvania Museum; CC BY-SA 3.0 unless otherwise stated
- Pagan, Joseph M. (1998), Ebla Electronic Corpus: Onomastic Data Base. Undena Publications (1998 disk); HTML edition by G. Buccellati, IIMAS / Cybernetica Mesopotamica (2012)
- EbDA: Ebla Digital Archives (CNR), Ebla Digital Archives (EbDA): ARET, ARES and MEE text editions. Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche
- 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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