lamarḫandatta(/i)-

The attestations of the lexeme and the stems related to it with Luwian endings and/or gloss wedges are restricted to the Festival for all the Tutelary Deities from the Late Hittite period.

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Checked against the photographs in the Konkordanz. – McMahon 1991a:108 reads ˹mar^!˺ with exclamation mark in KUB 2.1 iii 46 (likewise DLL:40), but the restoration based on ibid. ii 40 is doubtlessly correct. – The spelling with single -m- (contrary to lammar, see below) is considered defective.

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The two adjectives, genitival lamarḫandattašša/i- and relational lamarḫandatti(ya)- (see under Lemma) derived from lamarḫandatta(/i)- appear in the long list of specifications of the Tutelary Deity and that of his consort ^DĀla: ^DA-a-la-aš la-[mar]-ḫa-an-da-at-ta-aš-š[(i-iš)] and [^DLAM]MA te-pa-ú-wa-aš pé-e-⟨da⟩-aš la-mar-ḫa-an-da-at-ti-eš (KUB 2.1 iii 46).
The segmentation of this exceptionally long word into a compound consisting of lammar ‘subst. hour; adv. immediately’ and ḫandatta(/i)- was already understood in DLL:40. Based on the two semantic options for lammar and the range of meanings attested for the second member, scholars favored one of two proposals for the translation of the compound. Laroche (DLL:40), Archi 1975b:86, and HW 2nd ed. Ḫ:173 opted for ‘of immediate decision’, while CHD L:37 and Puhvel (HED L:57f., HED Ḫ:106) preferred ‘of the setting of fixing of an hour or moment’. Positive evidence for the latter comes from the preceding line in the list of ^DLAMMA deities, which refers to the [(m)]eḫunaš ^DLAMMA-aš ‘the Tutelary Deity of time’ (KUB 2.1 ii 39. For the division of the items of the list, see McMahon 1991a:102f. It is attractive to think that the two contiguous specifications belong to same semantic sphere. It supports the idea that lamarḫandatti(ya)- is about time-setting rather than decisions.
Moreover, this interpretation permits to integrate tepauwaš pē⟨d⟩aš (KUB 2.1 iii 46) into the picture. Although McMahon 1991a:103, like his predecessors, translated ‘[the tutel]ary deity of the small place(s) (and) (of [?]) setting a time of the Labarna’, assuming that ^DLAMMA is qualified by two coordinated attributes, the list does not provide any other clear case of such a construction. Instead, the translation as a single hierarchically organized noun phrase ‘the Labarna’s [tutel]ary deity of setting the time of the Little Place’ is more than compatible with the interpretation of the “Little Place” as a euphemism for death (see e.g. CHD P:340 and HED L:57f.). Consequently, lamarḫandatta(/i)- is rendered here as ‘of setting the time’.

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For the ambiguity of the stem, see under ḫandatta(/i)-.

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1. lamarḫandatti(ya)-

Luwian origin of the word is guaranteed by the form of the Luwian genitival adjective.

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For the lemma head see PAnat. *Hant-.