Title · Semitic

KU-PA₃-NA-TU

devotee(s) of Kubaba (Kubaba + -ān- + feminine -atu), a counted personnel group

Reading
Kubānatu
Type
Title Candidate
Language
Semitic Candidate
Sites
Haghia Triada
Attestations
2
Lexicon
KU-PA₃-NA-TU

Commentary

HT119 KU-PA₃-NA-TU 7 stands inside a personnel total (KU-RO 160 with VIR 68); HT47a 20[ is broken. Feminine of Kubānu on the base of Kubaba (KU-PA₃-PA₃, HT88). Gordon 1966 reads Kupānatu, feminine of Gupanu. Rival: gubnatu ‘cheese(s)’. Amorite Kubb-ān-um (Gelb, AS 21, no. 4148).

Compared forms

From the lexicon entry KU-PA₃-NA-TU.

  • Anatolian/North SyrianKubaba, divine name (Ugarit, Carchemish); Hurrian Kubaba (Laroche 1980, 150)
  • AmoriteKupapa, fem. DN (Gelb glossary); ʾAlli-Kupapa, Baʿli-Kupapa (nos. 708, 2094); short base in Kubb-ān-um (no. 4148) and Kuba-ʾEl (nos. 4099–4100), which Gelb segments kubb-, kuʾb-
  • Akkadianištarītuištarītu ‘a priestess’, named from Ištar; Kubabat (Old Assyrian; Haas 1994, 406, 614)
Linear A Lexicon