# SU-PU₂ (Ṣubʾu)

> Ṣubʾu (personal name); rival ṣābu 'workers, troop'

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

- Reading: Ṣubʾu
- 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: [SU-PU₂](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/SU-PU~E2~82~82/index.md>)

## Commentary

Ṣubʾu, the Amorite name ṢUBUʾ-UM (Gelb 1980, AS 21, 652, nos. 6581–6582) and Eblaite zu-bu₃ (Pagan 1998, row 5264), the third entry under the personnel sign *305 on HT 63. Rival: ṣābu 'workers, troop' (PS *ṣ̂Vbaʾ-).

## Attestations

- [HT 63](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT63/index.md>)

## References

- AS 21: Gelb, Ignace J. (1980), Computer-aided Analysis of Amorite. Assyriological Studies 21,The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago
- Pagan, Joseph M. (1998), Ebla Electronic Corpus: Onomastic Data Base. Undena Publications (1998 disk); HTML edition by G. Buccellati, IIMAS / Cybernetica Mesopotamica (2012)

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