Place · Semitic

PI-TA-KA-SE

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

Reading: Bīt-kissē
Type: Place Speculative
Language: Semitic Speculative
Sites: Haghia Triada
Attestations: 1
Lexicon: PI-TA-KA-SE

Commentary

HT 21 PI-TA-KA-SE · TE · GRA 161, heading a grain and oil account (GORILA I 39). bīt ‘house of’ + kissē ‘throne’, Akk. bīt kussî ‘royal property’ (CAD K 593). Its man is PI-TA-KE-SI (HT 87). Rival: Hurrian Pidi-kešḫi.

Compared forms

From the lexicon entry PI-TA-KA-SE.

Akkadianbīt 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)
Ugariticksuksu ‘seat, throne’; Emar /kissu/ (DULAT 456)
Hebrewכִּסֵּאkissēʾkissēʾ כִּסֵּא ‘throne’ (Gen 41:40)