# KA (kapp) > palm-measure, bowl (unit of dry/liquid measure; administrative commodity category) A Linear A word in the Linear A Lexicon. The reading is a proposal and carries its tier. - Reading: kapp - Confidence: Candidate. A comparison worth testing; the evidence is thin or the word is rare. - Root: [\*kapp-]() 'palm, flap of hand or foot' - Kind: Administrative - Language: Semitic - Signs: KA (ka) ## Compared forms - Akkadian: *kappu* — kappu 'palm of hand, bowl, pan; a small unit of measure' - Hebrew: כַּף *kap* — kap (כַּף) 'palm, hollow of hand, bowl, pan, spoon' - Ugaritic: 𐎋𐎔 *kp* — kp 'palm, hand' (KTU 1.2:I:40) ## Attestations - [HT 11b](): \*86 KA 40 — palm-measure, bowl (unit) - [HT 140](): KA\[ - [HT 85b](): KA 1 — roster category logogram (unread) - [HT 93a](): \]KA 4 — unread - [HT 49b](): KA - [GO 2r](): KA ¹⁄₈ - [KH 36](): KA MI+JA+RU 4 - [MI 2](): \]KA\[ ## Commentary HT 11b: *86 KA 40, KA 30, KA 50, RU-ZU-NA KA 30, SA-QE-RI · KA 30, KU-RO 180: the sum is exact, and KA is the unit counted out to named recipients in 30s to 50s; on GO 2r KA ⅛ is a fraction of it. kapp 'bowl, palm-measure': Akk. kappu B 'bowl', and at Mari barley and linseed measured ina kappi maḫīrim 'in the k. of the market' (ARMT 13 100:7; CAD K 188). It stands alone on 149 HT nodules (HT Wa 1322–1470), the third commonest after *301 and KU, and appears on tablets at HT, KH, Milos and Gournia. On HT 85b and HT 140 KA is an entry of its own: KA 1 stands among KI-RE-TA₂ 1, PA 1 and DI 1 under KI-KI-RA-JA (HT 85b); KA 1 and ]KA 1 alternate with OLE+U as KA-PA ½ does on the same tablet, so KA there abbreviates KA-PA (HT 140; Montecchi 2010, 15). Rival: kaspu 'silver', which the abbreviation to one syllable weakens. ## References - Reading: di Mino; CAD K; Montecchi 2010 - KTU: Dietrich, Manfried; Loretz, Oswald; Sanmartín, Joaquín (2013), Die keilalphabetischen Texte aus Ugarit, Ras Ibn Hani und anderen Orten / The Cuneiform Alphabetic Texts from Ugarit, Ras Ibn Hani and Other Places (KTU³). Ugarit-Verlag, Münster (Alter Orient und Altes Testament 360/1); ISBN 978-3-86835-014-2 - 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 - Montecchi, Barbara (2010), A Classification Proposal of Linear A Tablets from Haghia Triada in Classes and Series. Kadmos,49,Walter de Gruyter,11–38 --- Page: https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/KA/ Licence: CC BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Cite as: di Mino, Tom. 2026. Linear A Lexicon. Plasma AI. https://linear-a.ai/. Data: kaphtor, commit 50525edd.