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Ugaritic
ḫšt - sepulchre, mausoleum
(DUL 412)
The widely accepted translation ‘sepulchre, mausoleum’ does not seem to fit the context well enough.Therefore, a connection with Akk.
ḫaštu
‘hole; grave, pit’ assumed in Watson 2007:87 is quite doubtful (Kogan 2015: 363).