God or goddess · Sumerian

KU-PA₃-PA₃

Kubaba, Sumerian Kug-Baba 'Pure is Baba' (divine or personal name)

Reading
Kubaba
Type
God or goddess Probable
Language
Sumerian Probable
Sites
Haghia Triada
Attestations
1
Lexicon
KU-PA₃-PA₃

Commentary

Conditional on PA₃=/ba/, the spelling matches Kubaba. Since Kubaba occurs as a goddess and in personal names, HT88's one-unit roster does not alone decide whether this is the deity, a woman, or a cult institution. The name and the PA₃ value must not circularly confirm one another.

Compared forms

From the lexicon entry KU-PA₃-PA₃.

  • Sumerianku₃-ᵈba-ba₆ Kug-Baba, the woman tavern-keeper (munus lu₂-kurun-na) who made firm the foundations of Kish and reigned 100 years (Sumerian King List 224–227, CDLI P479895); Ur III PN Ku-ba-ba-e (Monti 2017, 179)
  • AkkadianOld Babylonian awat Kubaba ša šarrūtam iṣbatu ‘the case of Kubaba, who seized the kingship’ (CAD Ṣ 32); ᵈNIN ku-ba-ba GAŠAN KUR.URU kar-ga-miš ‘Lady Kubaba, Lady of the land of Carchemish’ (RS 17.146; DULAT 208); ᵈku₃-KA₂ ᵈ15 ša uru gar-ga-mis ‘Kubaba, Ištar of Carchemish’ (SAA 2 6:469; CAD R 359)
  • Old AssyrianKubabat (ku-ba-ba-at), with the Semitic feminine -t, in the pantheon of Kaneš (Haas 1994, 384, 406, 614); PNN Ṣilli-Kubabat, Ummi-Kubabat (CDLI P357798, P360824)
  • Ugaritic𐎋𐎁𐎁𐎊kbbykbby PN ‘Kubaba’ (KTU 4.695:7), syllabic {f}ku-ba-ba, wife of Arḫalba, king of Ugarit (RS 16.144:6) (DULAT 419; Watson 2012, 332; Kinlaw 1967, 74); Hurrian kbbd ‘for Kubaba’ (KTU 1.116:23; Pardee 2002, 94–95)
  • AmoriteKupapa fem. DN (Gelb 1980, 23); ʾAlli-Kupapa, Baʿli-Kupapa (Gelb 1980, nos. 708, 2094); Mari ḫa-ià-ku-ba-ba ‘Kubaba is alive’ (Weeden 2009, 96 n. 118)
  • HurrianᵈKu-pa-pa, gen. Ku-ba-ba-be, with Adamma and Ḫašuntarḫi (Laroche 1980, 150); Alalakh fKubaba-danni (AT 364:7; Draffkorn 1959, 39)
  • HittiteᵈKu-pa-pa, ᵈKu-ba-ba, in the circle of Ḫebat (van Gessel 1998, 264–266; Haas 1994, 406–407)
  • Luwianthe ‘Queen’ of Carchemish, her name written with rhombus, bird and vessel (Haas 1994, 406)
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