/hantawatturi(ya)-/, MAGNUS.REX
‘of the Great King’
- Language
- Hieroglyphic Luwian
- Grammar
- adj
- ID
- 1089
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Hieroglyphic Luwian
/hantawatturi(ya)-/, MAGNUS.REX
‘of the Great King’1.1.1Transmission
Attested 17 times, this lexeme can be found in inscriptions from Karkamiš, the Konya plain, Malatya, and Tabal. The attestations from Malatya and Konya are from Empire Luwian inscriptions, dating to the 13th century BCE. Some of the evidence from Tabal has an unclear dating, but a few can be dated securely to the 8th century BCE.
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1.1.2Forms
| nom. sg. | /hantawatturis/ | MAGNUS.REX-sa7-´ | SUVASA B (Tabal) |
| MAGNUS.REX | BURUNKAYA, §1 (Tabal) | ||
| GÜRÜN lower, §1 (Malatya) | |||
| GÜRÜN upper, §1b (Malatya) | |||
| KARKAMIŠ A4b, §1 (Karkamiš) | |||
| KARKAMIŠ N1, §1 (Karkamiš) | |||
| KIZILDAĞ 3 (Tabal) | |||
| KIZILDAĞ 5 (Tabal) | |||
| KIZILDAĞ 4, §1 (Tabal) | |||
| KIZILDAĞ 4, §3 (Tabal) | |||
| KÖTÜKALE, §1b (Malatya) | |||
| SUVASA C (Tabal) | |||
| TOPADA, §1 (Tabal) | |||
| YALBURT frag. 1, 1-16§1 (Konya) x2 | |||
| dat. sg. | /hantawatturi/ | MAGNUS.REX | YALBURT frag. B, §2 (Konya) |
| MAGNUS.REX | YALBURT frag. 2, §3 (Konya) |
1.1.3Graphic Features
1.1.3.1Phonological Interpretation
The phonological interpretation of this lemma is largely tentative due to its almost exclusively logographic spelling. While clearly related to the noun and title proper MAGNUS.REX ‘Great King’, it hinges on the interpretation of that lemma as /hantawattura-/, which is tentative in itself and has been subject to disussion. For treating the present lemma as a derivation and separating it from the noun, see the discussions under meaning and stem below.
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1.1.4Meaning
The basic meaning of this word is assured, cf. the discussion in /hantawattura-/ ‘Great King’, and like that noun, it is mostly found in the introductory passages of inscriptions, following immediately after a personal name as is usual for titles in HLuw. (see Bauer 2014a:300f.). In contrast to its derivational base, however, the present lexeme occurs in the genealogical phrases following the initial name and title(s) of the inscriptions’ authors and is therefore part of the appositional information; on the morphosyntactic effects of that, see discussion of stem below.
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1.1.5Stem
It is assumed that the present lemma is an adjective in /-i(ya)-/, as that would be the expected formation in the contexts. The attested forms appear mostly in genealogical phrases of the type ‘son of Great King X’, e.g. in KARKAMIŠ N1, §1, Isá-pa-VIR-ti-sa MAGNUS.REX HEROS (FILIUS)ní-mu-zi/a, i.e. /SaPazzidis hantawatturis hastallis nimuwizzas/ ‘son of Great King SaPazzidi, the hero’, in which all words before the noun /nimuwizzas/ are marked as possessors, albeit in different ways. In the case of personal names (here Isá-pa-VIR-ti-sa), this possessive marking usually takes the form of the genitive, but for all other nouns (here the titles MAGNUS.REX and HEROS), there is a strong tendency to be derived into possessive adjectives, see Bauer 2014a:177-179.
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For the lemma head see PAnat. *Hant-.