Title · Semitic
PI-TA-KE-SI
(Man) of the throne-house, crown dependant (title); rival Hurrian PN Pidi-kešḫi
- Reading
- Bīt-kissi
- Type
- Title Speculative
- Language
- Semitic Speculative
- Sites
- Haghia Triada
- Attestations
- 1
- Lexicon
- PI-TA-KE-SI
Commentary
HT 87 PI-TA-KE-SI 1, first under MA-KA-RI-TE ‘merchants’. bīt-kissi, genitive of PI-TA-KA-SE Bīt-kissē (HT 21): a man of the crown, as the šūt GIŠ.GU.ZA of an Old Akkadian roster (CAD K 592). Rival: Hurrian Pidi-kešḫi, kešḫi ‘throne’ (Laroche 1980, 143–44).
Compared forms
From the lexicon entry PI-TA-KE-SI.
- Akkadianbīt kussî, É.GIŠ.GU.ZA, ‘1. royal property (real estate), 2. royal service’ (CAD K 593); PN and PN ša GIŠ.GU.ZA ‘belonging to the crown’ (Alalakh 7:26; CAD K 592)
- Ugariticksuksu ‘seat, throne’; Emar /kissu/ (DULAT 456)
- Hurriankešḫikešḫi ‘siège, trône’, ki-iš-hi = Akk. kussû (Laroche 1980, 143–44), rival