# PA-TA-QE (pitqē)

> a kind of \*402 cup

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

- Reading: pitqē
- Confidence: Candidate. A comparison worth testing; the evidence is thin or the word is rare.
- Root: [\*pitḳ-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/3852/index.md>) 'tablet, ballot, decree' 1, 'a goblet so named' 2
- Kind: Vessel
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: PA (pa) · TA (ta) · QE (qe)

## Compared forms

- Akkadian: *patāqu* — patāqu B 'to drink', pa-ta-qu (Malku VIII 8), liptiqu (En. el. III 9) (CAD P 275)

## Attestations

- [HT 31](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT31/index.md>): \*402-VS-PA-TA-QE 3000 — a kind of *402 cup; cf. Aramaic pitqa 'winecup'

## Commentary

HT 31 .6, a vessel inventory: PA-TA-QE written over the *402-VS cup logogram, 3000, the largest allocation on the tablet; one of Gordon's HT 31 vessels (Gordon 1966 §115). pitqē: Stieglitz compares Aramaic pitqā 'winecup' (Lewy, Chaldäisches Wörterbuch, s.v.) and Akkadian naptaqu 'smelting-jar' (AHw, s.v.), both apud Stieglitz 1971, 111; Jastrow 1173 gives pitqā 'tablet, ballot, decree', and Targ. II Esth. 1:8 names a large goblet Pithka, 'Decree'. Stieglitz sets the ending -e beside the archaic Hebrew plural -ê and the Ugaritic dual construct (Stieglitz 1971, 110). Rival: Akkadian patāqu 'to cast metal', 'metal vessel' (Astour, JAOS 87, 1967, 292 n. 13, apud Stieglitz 1971, 111).

## References

- Reading: di Mino; Gordon 1966; Stieglitz 1971; Jastrow 1903
- AHw: von Soden, Wolfram (1981), Akkadisches Handwörterbuch, Bd. I–III. Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden
- Gordon, Cyrus H. (1966), Evidence for the Minoan Language. Ventnor Publishers,68
- Stieglitz, Robert R. (1971), Minoan Vessel Names. Kadmos,10,110–112
- Jastrow: Jastrow, Marcus (1903), A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature. Luzac & Co., London; G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York; 2 vols
- CAD P: Oriental Institute (Martha T. Roth, ed.) (2005), The Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, vol. 12, P. The Oriental Institute, Chicago

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