Personal name · Semitic

KU-PA₃-NU

devotee of Kubaba (Kubaba + -ān-), personal name or title; rival Ugaritic Gupana/Gupan

Reading: Kubānu
Type: Personal name Probable
Language: Semitic Probable
Sites: Haghia Triada, Phaistos
Attestations: 7
Lexicon: KU-PA₃-NU

Commentary

Kubānu ‘devotee of Kubaba’, masculine of KU-PA₃-NA-TU Kubānatu, the counted personnel group of HT119 (di Mino, Ya Diktu). HT88 sets it beside KU-PA₃-PA₃ Kubaba. Amorite has the short base with this ending, Kubb-ān-um (Gelb, AS 21, no. 4148). Eight occurrences across seven inscriptions make name or title status probable. Rival: Gupana/Gupan, from Ugaritic syllabic {m}gu-pa-na (RS 11.839 r.8; ORACC P503288) and alphabetic gpn, with Linear B ku-pa-nu-we-to.

Compared forms

From the lexicon entry KU-PA₃-NU.

Anatolian/North SyrianKubaba, divine name (Laroche 1980, 150; DULAT 419); base of Kubānu
AmoriteKubb-ān-um (Gelb, AS 21, no. 4148)
Ugariticrival {m}gu-pa-na, personal name gpn(y) (RS 11.839 r. 8, ORACC P503288; PRU 3 195:18, DULAT 301); gpn, Baal’s messenger, gpn w ugr (KTU 1.3 III 36; DULAT 301)

Outside the corpus

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