Title · Semitic

ZU-JU-PU₂

flute; here the flute-player, the trade of TU-QE-NU Tuqnu; rival Hurrian Tulbiya

Reading: ṯulpu
Type: Title Candidate
Language: Semitic Candidate
Sites: Haghia Triada
Attestations: 1
Lexicon: ZU-JU-PU₂

Commentary

HT 25a .3–4 TU-QE-NU / ZU-JU-PU₂ 1, the trade after the name (GORILA I 44–45). ṯulpu ‘flute’, the flute-player: Ugaritic ṯlb (DULAT 892); Akk. ša šulpi ‘a reed-instrument player’, after a name in PN ša šu-ul-pi (CAD Š/3 257). Rival: the Hurrian name tlby (DULAT 856). One witness.

Compared forms

From the lexicon entry ZU-JU-PU₂.

Ugaritic𐎘𐎍𐎁ṯlbṯlb ‘flute’, b knr w b ṯlb ‘with the lyre and the flute’ (KTU 1.108:4; DULAT 892)
Akkadianšulpušulpu ‘stalk, a flute or other reed instrument’; ša šulpi ‘a reed-instrument player’ (CAD Š/3 256–57)
Hurriantlby, syll. tu-ul-bi-ia, PN (DULAT 856), rival