# ZU-JU-PU₂ (ṯulpu)

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

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

- Reading: ṯulpu
- Type: Title; confidence Candidate. A comparison worth testing; the evidence is thin or the word is rare.
- Language: Semitic; confidence Candidate. A comparison worth testing; the evidence is thin or the word is rare.
- Sites: Haghia Triada
- Lexicon: [ZU-JU-PU₂](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/ZU-JU-PU~E2~82~82/index.md>)

## 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.

## Attestations

- [HT 25a](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT25a/index.md>)

## References

- DULAT: del Olmo Lete, Gregorio; Sanmartín, Joaquín (2015), A Dictionary of the Ugaritic Language in the Alphabetic Tradition. Brill, Leiden/Boston (Handbook of Oriental Studies 1/112); Third Revised Edition, tr. and ed. Wilfred G.E. Watson; 2 parts
- CAD Š/3: Oriental Institute (Erica Reiner, ed.) (1992), The Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, vol. 17, Š, part 3. 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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