# QE-PI-TA (qepīta)

> box, chest, basket (container or unit)

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

- Reading: qepīta
- Confidence: Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once.
- Root: [\*ḳupp-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/301/index.md>) 'box' 1, 'basket' 2
- Kind: Vessel
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: QE (qe) · PI (pi) · TA (ta)

## Compared forms

- Ugaritic: 𐎖𐎔𐎚 *qpt* — qpt 'box, chest, basket' (DULAT 696)
- Akkadian: *quppatu* — quppatu 'box, basket'; quppu A 'wicker basket or wooden chest' (CAD Q 307); qappatu (qabbatu) '(a basket made of palm leaves)' (CAD Q 91)

## Attestations

- [HT 6a](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT6a/index.md>): QE-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.

## Same root

- [KU-PA](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/KU-PA/index.md>) (quppa)

## References

- Reading: di Mino
- 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
- CAD Q: Oriental Institute (Erica Reiner, ed.) (1982), The Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, vol. 13, Q. The Oriental Institute, Chicago; J. J. Augustin, Glückstadt

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