# TU-NU (Tunu)

> Tunu (Hurrian personal name, owner's name on a double axe)

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

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

## Commentary

Tunu, the Hurrian element tun- (NPN 269), as in Nuzi Tun-tešup (NPN 158); on a bronze double axe.

## Attestations

- [KA Zf 1](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/KAZf1/index.md>)

## References

- NPN: Gelb, Ignace J.; Purves, Pierre M.; MacRae, Allan A. (1943), Nuzi Personal Names. Oriental Institute Publications 57, University of Chicago

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