QE-PI-TA

box, chest, basket (container or unit)

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Reading: qepīta
Confidence: Speculative
Root: *ḳupp- ‘box’ 1, ‘basket’ 2
Kind: Vessel
Language: Semitic
Rank: —

Compared forms

Ugaritic𐎖𐎔𐎚qptqpt ‘box, chest, basket’ (DULAT 696)
Akkadianquppatuquppatu ‘box, basket’; quppu A ‘wicker basket or wooden chest’ (CAD Q 307); qappatu (qabbatu) ‘(a basket made of palm leaves)’ (CAD Q 91)

Attestations1 cited

HT 6aQE-PI-TA 22 ³⁄₄

Commentary

HT 6a, after DA-QE-RA: QE-PI-TA 22¾, counted in quarters, a container or unit. Ug. qpt ‘box, chest, basket’ (DULAT 696); Akk. quppatu, quppu (CAD Q 307). QE writes the vowel of Akk. qappatu beside quppatu (CAD Q 91, 307) and Mehri ḳeffēt (PS *ḳupp-). Weak point: one attestation. See KU-PA.

On the 3D inscriptions

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