# QE-SI-TE (qešet)

> bow, incised on the Malia palace wall; rival 'throne, seat' (PS \*kussīʾ-)

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

- Reading: qešet
- Confidence: Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once.
- Root: [\*ḳa(w)š-](<https://linear-a.ai/roots/362/index.md>) 'bow'
- Kind: Administrative
- Language: Semitic
- Signs: QE (qe) · SI (si) · TE (te)

## Compared forms

- Ugaritic: 𐎖𐎌𐎚 *qšt* — qšt 'bow; archer' (DULAT 707); rival ks/śu 'seat, throne' (DULAT 456)
- Akkadian: *qaštu* — qaštu 'bow' (CAD Q 148); rival kussû 'chair, throne' (CAD K 587)
- Hebrew: *qešet* — qešet 'bow' (קֶשֶׁת, HALOT 1155); rival kissēʾ 'throne, seat' (כִּסֵּא, HALOT 487)
- Geʿez: *qast* — qast 'bow' (Dillmann)
- Arabic: *alternative kursiyy* — alternative kursiyy 'chair, throne' (cf. Qurʾān 2:255 kursiyyuhu)

## Attestations

- [MA Ze 11](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/MAZe11/index.md>): QE-SI-TE

## Commentary

MA Ze 11, incised in the Malia palace south of the north-west court (GORILA IV 140), complete. qešet 'bow': QE writes qe, SI še, a vowel mismatch only, and TE the feminine -t, as Heb. qešet (HALOT 1155); Akk. qaštu (CAD Q 148), Ug. qšt (DULAT 707), Geʿez qast. Rival: kussīʾ 'throne, seat' (Akk. kussû, Ug. ksu, Heb. kissēʾ), which suits a palace but has no -t for TE. One attestation. Cf. QE-SI-ZU-E.

## Rival readings

- kussīʾ: throne, seat (root k-s-ʾ); Akk. kussû, Ug. ksu, Heb. kissēʾ. Fits a palace label, but the word has no -t for TE and QE must stand for k.

## References

- Reading: di Mino; GORILA IV; HALOT; CAD Q; DULAT
- HALOT: Koehler, Ludwig; Baumgartner, Walter; Stamm, Johann Jakob; Richardson, M. E. J. (trans. and ed.) (1994), The Hebrew and Aramaic Lexicon of the Old Testament, vols. I–IV. E. J. Brill, Leiden · New York · Köln
- 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
- 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
- GORILA IV: Godart, Louis; Olivier, Jean-Pierre (1982), Recueil des inscriptions en linéaire A, volume 4: Autres documents (GORILA IV). École française d'Athènes (Études crétoises XXI, 4); Librairie orientaliste Paul Geuthner, Paris

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