# I-KU-TA (Ḥikuptaḥ)

> place name: Memphis, the seat of Kothar (Ug. Ḥkpt), a recipient of cyperus; rival 'the Memphite'

A name in the Linear A onomasticon. The reading is a proposal and carries its tier.

- Reading: Ḥikuptaḥ
- Type: Place; confidence Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once.
- Language: Egyptian; confidence Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once.
- Sites: Haghia Triada
- Lexicon: [I-KU-TA](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/I-KU-TA/index.md>)

## Commentary

HT 35 .1 I-KU-TA CYP 1 (GORILA I 67). ḥi-ku(p)-ta(ḥ), with the coda p and final ḥ unwritten; the Byblos letter EA 139:8 also writes hi-ku-ta-ah (Belmonte, RGTC 12/2, 105). Ugaritic Ḥkpt, the seat of Kothar, Egyptian ḥwt-kꜣ-ptḥ (DULAT 353); Linear B i-ku-to (MY Oi 705.1). One witness.

## Attestations

- [HT 35](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT35/index.md>)

## References

- EA: Moran, William L. (1992), The Amarna Letters. Johns Hopkins University Press
- 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
- 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
- RGTC 12/2: Belmonte Marín, Juan Antonio (2001), Die Orts- und Gewässernamen der Texte aus Syrien im 2. Jt. v. Chr.. Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag, Wiesbaden (Répertoire Géographique des Textes Cunéiformes 12/2; Beihefte zum Tübinger Atlas des Vorderen Orients B 7/12/2)

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