# PI-TA-KA-SE (Bīt-kissē)

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

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

- Reading: Bīt-kissē
- Confidence: Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once.
- Root: [\*bayt-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/652/index.md>) 'house'
- Kind: Administrative
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: PI (pi) · TA (ta) · KA (ka) · SE (se)

## Compared forms

- Akkadian: bīt 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)
- Ugaritic: *ksu* — ksu 'seat, throne'; Emar /kissu/ (DULAT 456)
- Hebrew: כִּסֵּא *kissēʾ* — kissēʾ כִּסֵּא 'throne' (Gen 41:40)

## Attestations

- [HT 21](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT21/index.md>): PI-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.

## Same root

- [PI-TA-KE-SI](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/PI-TA-KE-SI/index.md>) (Bīt-kissi)

## In the onomasticon

- [PI-TA-KA-SE](<https://linear-a.ai/names/PI-TA-KA-SE/index.md>): Place, Semitic

## References

- Reading: di Mino; CAD K
- CAD K: Oriental Institute (A. Leo Oppenheim and Erica Reiner, eds.) (1971), The Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, vol. 8, K. The Oriental Institute, Chicago; J. J. Augustin, Glückstadt
- DULAT: del Olmo Lete, Gregorio; Sanmartín, Joaquín (2015), A Dictionary of the Ugaritic Language in the Alphabetic Tradition. Brill, Leiden/Boston (Handbook of Oriental Studies 1/112); Third Revised Edition, tr. and ed. Wilfred G.E. Watson; 2 parts
- 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

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