Place · Semitic

KA-KU-PA

Star (place name, as Mari Kabkab)

Reading
kawkab
Type
Place Candidate
Language
Semitic Candidate
Sites
Haghia Triada
Attestations
3
Lexicon
KA-KU-PA

Commentary

Heads all 3 attestations (HT16 allocation list + 2 HTWc roundels). Pattern: heads commodity lists distributing to other entries. More consistent with estate/settlement name or institutional heading than individual PN.

Compared forms

From the lexicon entry KA-KU-PA.

  • Ugaritic𐎋𐎁𐎋𐎁kbkbkbkb ‘star’ (GlOS 1, 297)
  • EblaiteᵈMUL = gag-gáb ‘star’, also a DN; names ga-kab, ga-ba-ga-bù (GlOS 1, 297)
  • MariKabkab, ka-ab-ka-ab, a place name (M.7630:4; FM II 338; MTT I/1, s.v. KABKAB)
Linear A Lexicon