# KU-PA-ZU (Kapizzi)

> Kapizzi (Hurrian personal name), 'kapizzi-jewel'; rival kupṯu 'headdress'

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

- Reading: Kapizzi
- Type: Personal name; confidence Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once.
- Language: Hurrian; confidence Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once.
- Sites: Khania
- Lexicon: [KU-PA-ZU](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/KU-PA-ZU/index.md>)

## Commentary

Kapizzi: the Ugarit name ka-bi-iz-zi (Kinlaw 1967, 71), Hurrian kabizzi 'jewel' (Kapizza, Monti 2017, 346), before a cyperus entry on KH 5. Rival: kupṯu 'headdress', Ug. kpṯ (DULAT 448–449).

## Attestations

- [KH 5](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/KH5/index.md>)

## References

- 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
- Kinlaw, Dennis F. (1967), A Study of the Personal Names in the Akkadian Texts from Ugarit. Brandeis University, Department of Mediterranean Studies (Ph.D. dissertation)
- Monti, Luciano Esteban (2017), A Systematic Approach to the Hurrian Pantheon: The Onomastic Evidence. PhD dissertation, Università degli Studi di Udine (XXVIII cycle)

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