# PI-TA-KE-SI (Bīt-kissi)

> (Man) of the throne-house, crown dependant (title); rival Hurrian PN Pidi-kešḫi

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

- Reading: Bīt-kissi
- Type: Title; 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-KE-SI](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/PI-TA-KE-SI/index.md>)

## 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).

## Attestations

- [HT 87](<https://linear-a.ai/texts/HT87/index.md>)

## References

- GLH: Laroche, Emmanuel (1980), Glossaire de la langue hourrite. Editions Klincksieck
- 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

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