# PI-TA-KE-SI (Bīt-kissi)

> (Man) of the throne-house, crown dependant (title); rival Hurrian PN Pidi-kešḫi

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

- Reading: Bīt-kissi
- 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: Personnel
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: PI (pi) · TA (ta) · KE (ke) · SI (si)

## Compared forms

- Akkadian: bīt kussî, É.GIŠ.GU.ZA, '1. royal property (real estate), 2. royal service' (CAD K 593); PN and PN ša GIŠ.GU.ZA 'belonging to the crown' (Alalakh 7:26; CAD K 592)
- Ugaritic: *ksu* — ksu 'seat, throne'; Emar /kissu/ (DULAT 456)
- Hurrian: *kešḫi* — kešḫi 'siège, trône', ki-iš-hi = Akk. kussû (Laroche 1980, 143–44), rival

## Attestations

- [HT 87](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT87/index.md>): PI-TA-KE-SI 1 — (man) of the throne-house, crown dependant; rival Hurrian PN Pidi-kešḫi

## Commentary

HT 87 PI-TA-KE-SI 1, first of six one-unit entries under MA-KA-RI-TE in a roster of men. bīt-kissi, construct + genitive, as Akk. bīt kussî 'royal property, royal service' (CAD K 593): '(man) of the throne-house', as the šūt GIŠ.GU.ZA 'those of the throne' of an Old Akkadian roster of men (CAD K 592). The house itself heads HT 21 as PI-TA-KA-SE. Rival: Hurrian Pidi-kešḫi, kešḫi 'throne' (Laroche 1980, 143–44) with pidi/u- unglossed (1980, 200).

## Same root

- [PI-TA-KA-SE](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/PI-TA-KA-SE/index.md>) (Bīt-kissē)

## In the onomasticon

- [PI-TA-KE-SI](<https://linear-a.ai/names/PI-TA-KE-SI/index.md>): Title, Semitic

## References

- Reading: di Mino; CAD K; Laroche 1980
- GLH: Laroche, Emmanuel (1980), Glossaire de la langue hourrite. Editions Klincksieck
- 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

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