# SE-KU-TU (Šakūtu)

> personal name, 'Calm, at rest'; rival Zakūtu 'pure, innocent'

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

- Reading: Šakūtu
- Type: Personal name; confidence Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once.
- Language: Semitic; confidence Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once.
- Sites: Haghia Triada
- Lexicon: [SE-KU-TU](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/SE-KU-TU/index.md>)

## Commentary

HT 115a .3 SE-KU-TU ½, a recipient (GORILA I 188–189). Šakūtu 'Calm', √š-k-t 'be quiet, rest' (Akk. sakātu, CAD S 74). Rival: Zakūtu 'pure', Ebla za-ku-tu (Pagan 1998, row 5026). One witness.

## Attestations

- [HT 115a](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT115a/index.md>)

## References

- Pagan, Joseph M. (1998), Ebla Electronic Corpus: Onomastic Data Base. Undena Publications (1998 disk); HTML edition by G. Buccellati, IIMAS / Cybernetica Mesopotamica (2012)
- CAD S: Oriental Institute (Erica Reiner, ed.) (1984), The Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, vol. 15, S. The Oriental Institute, Chicago; J. J. Augustin, Glückstadt
- GORILA I: Godart, Louis; Olivier, Jean-Pierre (1976), Recueil des inscriptions en linéaire A, volume 1: Tablettes éditées avant 1970 (GORILA I). École française d'Athènes (Études crétoises XXI, 1); Librairie orientaliste Paul Geuthner, Paris

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