# PI-TA-KA-SE (Bīt-kissē)

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

A name in the Linear A onomasticon. The reading is a proposal and carries its tier.

- Reading: Bīt-kissē
- Type: Place; confidence Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once.
- Language: Semitic; confidence Speculative. A proposed reading on a word too rare to test. Most occur only once.
- Sites: Haghia Triada
- Lexicon: [PI-TA-KA-SE](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/PI-TA-KA-SE/index.md>)

## 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.

## Attestations

- [HT 21](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT21/index.md>)

## References

- 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
- GORILA I: Godart, Louis; Olivier, Jean-Pierre (1976), Recueil des inscriptions en linéaire A, volume 1: Tablettes éditées avant 1970 (GORILA I). École française d'Athènes (Études crétoises XXI, 1); Librairie orientaliste Paul Geuthner, Paris

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