# \*406VAS+KE (kās)

> cup, drinking vessel—commodity ideogram for a specific vessel type, with KE phonetic complement indicating initial syllable of Semitic \*kaʾs-

A Linear A word in the Linear A Lexicon. The reading is a proposal and carries its tier.

- Reading: kās
- Confidence: Candidate. A comparison worth testing; the evidence is thin or the word is rare.
- Root: [\*kaʾs-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/297/index.md>) 'vessel for beer' 1, 'bowl' 2
- Kind: Commodity
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: \*406VAS · KE (ke)

## Compared forms

- Akkadian: *kāsu* — kāsu 'goblet, cup; cup as measure' (CAD K 253)
- Hebrew: *kôs* — kôs 'cup, goblet' (HALOT 466)
- Ugaritic: 𐎋𐎒 *ks* — ks (I) 'cup, goblet' (DULAT 454)

## Attestations

- [HT 26a](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT26a/index.md>): \*406VAS+KE
- [HT 26b](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT26b/index.md>): \*406VAS+KE VIR+\[?\] 9

## Commentary

HT 26 (Haghia Triada, Villa Magazine, LM IB): a vessel ideogram with the phonetic complement KE, heading both faces. *406VAS draws a vessel and is a compound or ligature component, and KE narrows it to one type, as Linear B vessel ideograms take phonetic complements. Akk. kāsu, Heb. kōs, Arab. kaʾs, Ebla ga-sa-a-tum kāsāt 'cups' (GlOS 1, 322): KE writes its first syllable, E for a. KA-SI (skeleton k-s) on HT Wa 1027, a nodule from the same site, is a candidate for the word in syllables. HT 93a has the bare *406-VS beside DA-RI-DA with quantity 2, a vessel-class commodity sign on a second tablet. HT 26b opens with *406VAS+KE, then VIR+[?] 9 and named allocations (RO-NI 3, KA-U-ZU-NI 4, KI+MU 12): personnel and commodities distributed by vessel type. Weak point: KE writes the a of kās with E.

## References

- Reading: di Mino
- HALOT: Koehler, Ludwig; Baumgartner, Walter; Stamm, Johann Jakob; Richardson, M. E. J. (trans. and ed.) (1994), The Hebrew and Aramaic Lexicon of the Old Testament, vols. I–IV. E. J. Brill, Leiden · New York · Köln
- CAD K: Oriental Institute (A. Leo Oppenheim and Erica Reiner, eds.) (1971), The Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, vol. 8, K. The Oriental Institute, Chicago; J. J. Augustin, Glückstadt
- 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
- GlOS 1: Sanmartín, Joaquín (2019), A Glossary of Old Syrian, Volume 1: ʔ – ḳ. Languages of the Ancient Near East 8/1,Eisenbrauns (Pennsylvania State University Press), University Park

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