Title · Semitic

QE-PU

official, commissioner (title); rival: the personal name Qīpu

Reading
qēpu
Type
Title Speculative
Language
Semitic Speculative
Sites
Haghia Triada
Attestations
2
Lexicon
QE-PU

Commentary

Roster +numeral.

Compared forms

From the lexicon entry QE-PU.

  • Akkadianqīpu (qēpu) s. ‘official; administrator of a region, a city, a temple’, from MB on, Ass. qēpu, lex. LÚ qe-e-pu (CAD Q 264); qīpu adj. ‘trustworthy, trusted (person)’ (CAD Q 263); qiāpu ‘to believe, trust’
  • NuziQĪPU, Ki-pu, slave of the palace (Gelb, Purves, and MacRae 1943, 88)
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