# KA-\*314-SI (Kaḥas)

> personal name; Egyptian kꜣḥs, a name under Senusret III; rival kabsi 'young ram'

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

- Reading: Kaḥas
- Confidence: Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once.
- Kind: Personal name
- Language: Middle Egyptian
- Signs: KA (ka) · \*314 · SI (si)

## Compared forms

- Egyptian: kꜣḥs, a personal name (PNM v6, personal_names_id 142607804; Ranke II, 322.3)
- Akkadian: *kabsu* — kabsu 'young male sheep' (CAD K 23), the rival

## Attestations

- [PH Wc 37](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/PHWc37/index.md>): KA-\*314-SI \*320

## Commentary

PH Wc 37 KA-*314-SI *320, a Phaistos roundel (MM II), all three signs whole (GORILA II 94). Egyptian kꜣḥs, a name under Senusret III (Ranke II, 322.3; PNM v6, Louvre C 173), with *314 read ḥa and the final vowel dead. Rival, *314 as a variant of PU₂: kabsi 'young ram', Akk. kabsu (CAD K 23), Heb. kebeś, a roundel commodity. One witness.

## In the onomasticon

- [KA-\*314-SI](<https://linear-a.ai/names/KA-*314-SI/index.md>): Personal name, Egyptian

## References

- Reading: Ilin-Tomich 2025 (PNM v6), s.v. kꜣḥs; di Mino
- 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
- GORILA II: Godart, Louis; Olivier, Jean-Pierre (1979), Recueil des inscriptions en linéaire A, volume 2: Nodules, scellés et rondelles édités avant 1970 (GORILA II). École française d'Athènes (Études crétoises XXI, 2); Librairie orientaliste Paul Geuthner, Paris
- PNM: Ilin-Tomich, Alexander (2025), Persons and Names of the Middle Kingdom (PNM), version 6. Zenodo (Freie Universität Berlin); CC BY 4.0

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