# KU-PA₃-NA-TU (Kubānatu)

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

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

- Reading: Kubānatu
- Type: Title; confidence Candidate. A comparison worth testing; the evidence is thin or the word is rare.
- Language: Semitic; confidence Candidate. A comparison worth testing; the evidence is thin or the word is rare.
- Sites: Haghia Triada
- Lexicon: [KU-PA₃-NA-TU](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/KU-PA~E2~82~83-NA-TU/index.md>)

## 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).

## Attestations

- [HT 47a](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT47a/index.md>)
- [HT 119](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT119/index.md>)

## References

- Gordon, Cyrus H. (1966), Evidence for the Minoan Language. Ventnor Publishers,68
- AS 21: Gelb, Ignace J. (1980), Computer-aided Analysis of Amorite. Assyriological Studies 21,The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago

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