dūdupa(-)

Hapax in a Luwian ritual fragment in MS.

[Zs.S.]

2sg. impv. or nom./acc. pl. n.

du-ú-du-pa

KUB 35.65 rev. iii 8’

(CTH 763, MS)

Attestation following Laroche 1959a:99 and CLL:238, checked against the photo of the Mainzer Fotoarchiv.

[Zs.S.]

There is general agreement that the word means ‘to strike’, based only on its similarity to the Luwian verb dūpi-/dūpai- ‘to hit, to strike’ (Laroche 1959a:99; Starke 1990a:492; CLL:238 [“reduplicated stem”]; Tischler 2008a:206, Tischler 2016a:391; cf. also Ünal 2016a:954). However, the context is entirely unclear (transcription following Starke 1985b:101 with some corrections based on KUB 35 and the photos of the Mainzer Fotoarchiv):

6’ [    ]⸢iš⸣-ša-ri-iš a-an-da	‘[    ] the hand (nom.) in(to)
7’ [    ] a-aš-ta ḫa-an-na-a	[    ] was. ḫ.
8’ [    ]⸢zi⸣-i-la du-ú-du-pa	[    ] subsequently d.
9’ [    ]-⸢šu⸣ ú-ut-ra šar-ra	[    ] the words (nom.-acc.) upon
10’ [    ]-⸢ši⸣	[    ] x.’

The quoted authors see a 2sg. imperative in du-ú-du-pa, just like in ḫa-an-na-a of the preceding line (see CLL:51; Tischler 2008a:42, Tischler 2016a:391 [both cautiously]; cf. s.v.), which is formally possible, but cannot be verified. Dūdupa can just as well be a nom./acc. pl., like ú-ut-ra in the following line. They may be direct objects of a 2sg. transitive verb, whose ending -ši may be present in the only preserved sign of line 10’, which belongs to the last word of the sentence, thus having good chances to be a verb according to Luwian syntax, and since this is the last sign, it would represent the expected verbal ending.

[A.B.], [Zs.S.]