PI-SA

personal name, '(a bird)', Akk. būṣu; rival an institution; a recipient

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Reading: Pīsa
Confidence: Speculative
Root: *bVṣ- ‘(a bird)’
Kind: Personal name
Language: Semitic
Rank: —

Attestations2 cited

HT 123+124bPI-SA 4recipient name
KH 6PI-SArecipient name, before the break

Commentary

A recipient at two sites: HT 123+124b .2 PI-SA 4 in a terebinth list, clean on a palimpsest face (GORILA I 213), and KH 6 .6 PI-SA[ at a line end, broken after, before CYP+D ½ (GORILA III 27). Bu-ṣí (F), with PI for b and SA for ṣ, which Huffmon sets with Bu-ṣi-ya under Akk. buṣ- (Huffmon 1965, 151 n. 37): būṣu C ‘(a bird)’, with the Old Babylonian names Bu-ṣu-um, Bu-ṣa-a, Bu-ṣi-ia (CAD B 349). Rival: an institution receiving allocations.

On the 3D inscriptions

Not written on any of the 82 inscriptions modelled so far.