PI-KU-ZU

in flasks (preposition bi- + kuṯ 'flask, jar'; heading of an oil section)

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Reading
bi-kuṯ
Confidence
Speculative
Root
*bV-- ‘in’ + *kVṯ- ‘flask, jar (a container and a measure)’
Kind
Vessel
Language
Semitic
Rank
—

Compared forms

  • Ugaritic𐎋𐎘kṯkṯ ‘a measure and a container ("flask, bottle, jar")’: kṯm ššmn ‘two flasks(?) of (cream of) sesame’, KTU 4.60:8; kṯ ẓrw kṯ nbt ‘a flask(?) of balsam (and) a flask(?) of honey’, KTU 1.148:22; ʕšr kṯt, KTU 6.12:2 (DULAT 466)
  • Akkadiankišukišu B ‘(a metal bowl)’: 1 ki-iš kaspi, between bīt šamni ‘oil lamp’ and ḫubunnu, EA 14 i 37 (CAD K 463)

Attestations1 cited

  1. TY 3b3DPI-KU-ZU OLE+KI 4in flasks (heading of an oil section); oil-KI 4, oil-MI 11, oil-NE 2

Commentary

TY 3b .2–.4 PI-KU-ZU OLE+KI 4, OLE+MI 11, OLE+NE 2, the ruled section after KI-RI-SI OLE+MI 6 (GORILA I 329); KU and ZU drawn whole on the worn surface of the facsimile. PI the proclitic bi- ‘in’, as PA₃-E bē; KU-ZU kuṯ, ZU for ṯ as in KU-ZU-NI Kuṯinu: three oils counted in kṯ-flasks, the Ugaritic flask for sesame, balsam and cumin (DULAT 466). Weak points: PI for the proclitic bi- has no second witness; the vowel of kṯ is unknown. One attestation.

On the 3D inscriptions1 inscription

TY 3bTylissospi-ku-zu…
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