The New Values of Luwian Signs L 319 and L 172 (original) (raw)
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À la lumière des récentes découvertes et développements, cet essai aborde à nouveau la question des identifications des écritures nommées dans l'inscription de Yariri (KARKAMIù A15b). Sur la base de la bilingue louvito-phénicienne de Çineköy en conjonction avec une analyse des autres occurrences du mot « Assyrie » dans le corpus hiéroglyphique louvite, il démontre que le premier signe (*448) de la deuxième écriture nommée doit être interprété comme zú au lieu de sù. Ainsi, il devrait être identifié avec le Tyrien, autrement dit, l'écriture phénicienne. Il discute aussi les questions multiples et complexes de la quatrième écriture, taimani-, en arguant que le mot est très probablement dérivé du sémitique tymn « sud » et devrait sans doute être identifié avec l'écriture « nord-arabique ancienne » 1. Around 800 BCE, on a basalt statue base which supported his own statue (now missing), a eunuch and regent of the royal family of Karkamiš named Yariri inscribed a dedicatory inscription in Hieroglyphic Luwian (KARKAMIŠ A15b) 2. The text describes his irrigation and building 1. It is a privilege to offer this study in honor of Professor André Lemaire, who has done so much to advance the understanding of the scripts and languages of the ancient Near East. 2.
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This paper critically examines the key problem in the origins of the Hieroglyphic Luwian writing system, namely that of chronology. It argues that the sign CAPERE and the inscriptions of the stagshaped silver vessel and from Kayalıpınar require dating its emergence to the Old Hittite period at the latest. Nevertheless, the signs INFRA and PES still imply a Hittite contribution, which can only be assumed in a Hittite-Luwian bilingual context, which, in turn should be dated already to the Old Hittite period because of the Luwian grammatical influence documented from Middle Hittite onwards. Finally, the (lack of) evidence from the Old Assyrian Colony period will be discussed and the question why the emergence of the Hieroglyphic Luwian writing system cannot currently be dated to this period.
On the Value of the Luwian Hieroglyphic Sign LITUUS *378
Talanta, Proceedings of the Dutch Archaeological and Historical Society 52. Pp. 95-104, 2020
Having established that the new reading of the Luwian hieroglyphic signs *376 and *377 is flawed and needs to be replaced by the "adjusted old reading", it stands to reason to re-examine the case of the sign LITUUS *378 which also fell victim to the new reading. According to the latter reading, *378 is considered, when attacked to the top of another sign, as a determinative to be fronted in the transcription. However, according to the principles of the Luwian hieroglyphic script, an attached sign of a ligature has to be transliterated as following the sign it is attached to. Furthermore, LITUUS *378 can be shown to function as an ordinary syllabogram when not in ligature. The syllabic value of *378 can be determined as being of sibilant nature, owing to its interchange with other sibilant signs, and even its vocalic quality can be ascertained thanks to such interchange, so that the transliteration s(i) turns out to be the correct one. The validity of this value, finally, can be further underlined by the fact that it results into a number of readings of words or elements with good etymological equivalents in the dialects related to the Luwian hieroglyphic language, cuneiform Luwian, Lycian, Lydian, Etruscan, and, more distantly, Hittite. -
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