# KU-PA₃-NU (Kubānu)

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

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

- Reading: Kubānu
- Type: Personal name; confidence Probable. Fits the word’s contexts and has a close external comparison, without an independent control.
- Language: Semitic; confidence Probable. Fits the word’s contexts and has a close external comparison, without an independent control.
- Sites: Haghia Triada, Phaistos
- Lexicon: [KU-PA₃-NU](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/KU-PA~E2~82~83-NU/index.md>)

## 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.

## Outside the corpus

am_gelb_n_04148

## Attestations

- [HT 1](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT1/index.md>)
- [HT 3](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT3/index.md>)
- [HT 49a](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT49a/index.md>)
- [HT 88](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT88/index.md>)
- [HT 117a](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT117a/index.md>)
- [HT 122a](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT122a/index.md>)
- [PH(?) 31a](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/PH(~3F)31a/index.md>)

## References

- ORACC: Oracc Steering Committee, Oracc: The Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus. University of Pennsylvania Museum; CC BY-SA 3.0 unless otherwise stated
- AS 21: Gelb, Ignace J. (1980), Computer-aided Analysis of Amorite. Assyriological Studies 21,The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago
- Ya Diktu: di Mino, Tom (2026), Ya Diktu: Grammar of the Minoan Peak Sanctuary Libation Formula. Minoan Mystery, online,46 pp.

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