# JA-WA-PI (Yawpiʿ)

> Yawpiʿ 'He has shone forth' (personal name)

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

- Reading: Yawpiʿ
- Type: Personal name; confidence Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once.
- Language: Semitic; confidence Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once.
- Sites: Petras
- Lexicon: [JA-WA-PI](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/JA-WA-PI/index.md>)

## Commentary

First word on the PE Zb 7 vessel, closed by a divider before a broken word JA[ (RILA-S1 p. 112). No quantity follows. Amorite *wpʿ 'be brilliant' (Huffmon, APNM 212), MU-WPIʿ-I (Gelb 1980, no. 4729); Hebrew PN Yāpîaʿ (Josh 10:3). See the lexicon entry.

## Attestations

- [PE Zb 7](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/PEZb7/index.md>)

## References

- AS 21: Gelb, Ignace J. (1980), Computer-aided Analysis of Amorite. Assyriological Studies 21,The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago
- APNM: Huffmon, Herbert B. (1965), Amorite Personal Names in the Mari Texts: A Structural and Lexical Study. The Johns Hopkins Press, Baltimore

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