Mycenaean a-re-se-si and Homeric ἄλεισον Revisited (original) (raw)
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Willi independently address a centra l interpretive problem of Pylos tablet Tn 316 with cautious ingenuity 1 • Relying respectively on Homeric parallels (Nagy) and broader Indo-European ritual and poetic formulaic comparanda (Willi) , they argue that the word-unit pore -na in the formula which closes the lexical introduction in each of the four sections of recorded entries (do-ra-qe pe-re pore -na-qe a-ke 2) on the tablet could be interpreted as an athematic infinitive in-vm : ¢opfivm 3. Such an interpretation has consequences not only, as Nagy points out , for the dialectal affinities of Mycenaean Greek , but also for the longstanding debate over how to interpret the IO ideographic entries of MUL or VIR recorded on the tablet along with 13 golden bowl s, gob lets or chalices (*2JJ vAs, *2J5vAs or *2J6 vAs) 4. Willi concludes:
A Linguistic and Philogical Analysis for a Revisitation of the Mycenaean e-re-ta Tablets
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A Linguistic and Philological Analysis for a Revisitation of the Mycenaean E-RE-TA Tablets
Jazyky v pohybu a potenciál změny Sborníky z konferencí Filozofické fakulty, sv. 3, 2024
[Please contact me for further infos] This work focuses on the Mycenaean e-re-ta tablets from Pylos (PY An 610 and 724). The terms posi-ke-te-re (610.6) and wo-qe-we (610.7, 724.13) are reconsidered. A reconstruction *pod-seik- > posikt- ‘the ones who go by foot’ is proposed for the hapax po-si-ke-te-re, while wo-qe-we could be an occupational name going back to PIE *√wokw- ‘to say’ after the regular *-eu- suffixation. It is argued that An 610.4-10 is purposefully organized in two columns. The first column lists place-names, while the second records individuals by social class or occupation. An 724 is divided into two sections (ll. 1–10 and 11–14). The first records with the absence of some rowers. The second is analysed as a record of men who were actually disposable and who received a retribution (o-no).
Mycenaean E-pi-ko-wo and Alphabetic Greek Ἐπίκουρος Revisited
Kadmos: Zeitschrift für vor- und frühgriechische Epigraphik, 2017
This paper revisits the etymology of Greek ἐπίκουρος, which for over a century has been analyzed as a compound of ἐπί and an otherwise non-extant verbal root *κορσο-, from an Indo-European root familiar in Latin currō ‘run’. After reviewing the linguistic, epigraphic, and philological evidence, I conclude that this etymology is untenable. From here I turn to the Linear B data and demonstrate that the e-pi-ko-wo of the Pylian o-ka texts (ca. 1200 B.C.) should be interpreted as /epikorwoi/; this presents us with the linguistic antecedent of ἐπίκουρος, which should be etymologized as a prepositional Rektionskompositum, where ἐπί governs κόρϝος (‘he who is in close proximity to the κόρϝος (warrior)’ / ‘he who is attached to/accompanying the warriors’). Early in the Archaic period, this older Mycenaean term was replaced by a new coinage – σύμμαχος – which more appropriately described a military relationship binding one Greek polis to another. These conclusions are supported by early epic usage, historical linguistic analysis, and a full study of the Linear B texts in question. This new etymology has stimulating archaeological correlates and exemplifies the importance and broad applications of the Linear B texts for the reconstruction of Greek prehistory and society and our understanding of the epic tradition.
Ta-u-ro-qo-ro - Studies in Mycenaean Texts, Language and Culture in Honor of José Luis Melena Jiménez, 2022
The meaning of the Mycenaean word o-pi-ke re -mi-ni-ja is reexamined, taking into account the contexts in which it occurs and with reference to the previous relevant literature. On the basis of the archaeological evidence and of the linguistic data provided by a number of words and glosses in the first-millennium Greek, it is argued that this word must be rendered as *ὀπικελεμνίᾱ and that it referred to chairbacks consisting of vertical slats with one or more cross-pieces. The alternation between singular and plural forms of the word can be accounted for as a difference in the description of the ornamentation of the objects, and it can be arguably explained by the number of cross-pieces that made up the chairbacks.
Θεµις in the Mycenaean Lexicon and the Etymology of the Place-Name *ti-mi-to a-ko
Faventia, 2000
Reassessing work by Spanish scholars Martin S. Ruiperez and Mercedes Aguirre de Castro, this paper examines words in the Linear B texts that have been connected with the later Greek word themis. New readings of several key texts and a fuller understanding of the still much-debated tablet KN V(2) 280 argue against interpreting any words as connected with themis. This is consistent with the general absence of references to legal procedures in the Mycenaean records and the conspicuous absence in the Linear B inscriptions of any derivatives of the word for the notion of justice (δικη), which occurs so prominently in historical Greek literature and even as a formative element in historical personal names. The paper further explores the significance of these conclusions for the interpretation of the toponym *ti-mi-to a-ko, a prominent provincial capital in the Pylos tablets which has been identified archaeologically as the site of Nichoria.