PI-TA-KA-SE

House of the Throne, the crown estate (institution heading); rival the Hurrian name of PI-TA-KE-SI

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Reading
Bīt-kissē
Confidence
Speculative
Root
*bayt- ‘house’
Kind
Administrative
Language
Semitic
Rank
—

Compared forms

  • Akkadianbīt kussî, É.GIŠ.GU.ZA, ‘1. royal property (real estate), 2. royal service’ (CAD K 593); grain to PN ša GIŠ.GU.ZA (CAD K 592)
  • Ugariticksuksu ‘seat, throne’; Emar /kissu/ (DULAT 456)
  • Hebrewכִּסֵּאkissēʾkissēʾ כִּסֵּא ‘throne’ (Gen 41:40)

Attestations1 cited

  1. HT 21PI-TA-KA-SE TE GRA 161

Commentary

HT 21 PI-TA-KA-SE · TE · GRA 161, then OLE+U 11, OLE+E 3¾, *304 7¾, OLIV 1¼, the heading of a grain and oil account (GORILA I 39). bīt ‘house of’ + kissē ‘throne’: Akk. bīt kussî ‘royal property’ (CAD K 593), and grain booked to persons ša kussî ‘belonging to the crown’ (CAD K 592). PI writes bi as in DA-I-PI-TA. Its man is PI-TA-KE-SI (HT 87), bīt-kissi with the genitive. Rival: the Hurrian name Pidi-kešḫi.

On the 3D inscriptions

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

Linear A Lexicon