# PI-SA (Pīsa)

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

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

- Reading: Pīsa
- Confidence: Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once.
- Root: [\*bVṣ-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/4413/index.md>) '(a bird)'
- Kind: Personal name
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: PI (pi) · SA (sa)

## Attestations

- [HT 123+124b](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT123~2B124b/index.md>): PI-SA 4 — recipient name
- [KH 6](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/KH6/index.md>): PI-SA — recipient 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.

## In the onomasticon

- [PI-SA](<https://linear-a.ai/names/PI-SA/index.md>): Personal name, Semitic

## References

- Reading: di Mino; Huffmon 1965; CAD
- APNM: Huffmon, Herbert B. (1965), Amorite Personal Names in the Mari Texts: A Structural and Lexical Study. The Johns Hopkins Press, Baltimore
- CAD B: Oriental Institute (A. Leo Oppenheim and Erica Reiner, eds.) (1965), The Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, vol. 2, B. The Oriental Institute, Chicago; J. J. Augustin, Glückstadt
- GORILA I: Godart, Louis; Olivier, Jean-Pierre (1976), Recueil des inscriptions en linéaire A, volume 1: Tablettes éditées avant 1970 (GORILA I). École française d'Athènes (Études crétoises XXI, 1); Librairie orientaliste Paul Geuthner, Paris
- GORILA III: Godart, Louis; Olivier, Jean-Pierre (1976), Recueil des inscriptions en linéaire A, volume 3: Tablettes, nodules et rondelles édités en 1975 et 1976 (GORILA III). École française d'Athènes (Études crétoises XXI, 3); Librairie orientaliste Paul Geuthner, Paris

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