ḫantiyaraḫḫa-

The sole attestation of the lexeme is found in a NS copy of the ḫisuwa festival.

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acc. coll. or pl.	ḫa-an-ti-ia-ra-aḫ-ḫa-aš(-ša)	KUB 40.102 i 18’	(CTH 628, NS)
unknown	ḫa-an-te-ia-ra-ḫ[a-	HKM 66 obv. 14	(CTH 190, MS)

The form ḫantiyaraḫḫašša is interpreted by Dinçol & Dinçol 1996a and Oettinger 2007b:543 as an acc. pl. in -aš with the coordinating particle -a. However, an acc. pl. in -aš outside the stems in -iya- would be irregular. On the other hand, the scribe of KUB 40.102 does not seem to be proficient regarding the use of case forms; cf. the list ibid. i 11’-14’ with a mixture of nominative and accusative forms: nu 15 kap-pí-ša [ŠÀ].BA 3 ku-gul-la-aš 3 ke-el-lu [3] am-mu-ra-an 3 še-e-na-an 3 ma-ri-iš ˹i˺-ia-an. Alternatively, a derivative with the suffix -ašša/i- in a collective nom./acc. pl. is worth considering, see under Stem. – The incomplete form ḫa-an-te-ia-ra-ḫ[a- is read as ḫa-an-te-ia-ra-a in Alp 1991a:247, 339 and regarded as an attribute of ANŠE.KUR.RA ‘horses’. However, he comments on neither the morphological form nor his etymological connection with ḫantiyā(i)-^(mi). Given the context, it is more attractive to see the word as an incomplete instance of ḫantiyaraḫḫa-.

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Checked against the photographs in the Konkordanz.

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The word occurs as one of three items kept and held to the horns and the “face” of bovines by the purapši- officials during the activities of the ḫišuwa festival: na-aš-ta ^LÚ.MEŠpu-ra-ap-ši-e-eš 2 SI GU₄ KÙ.SI₂₂ GAR.RA ḫa-an-ti-ia-ra-aḫ-ḫa-aš-ša KÙ.SI₂₂ KÁ-aš an-da ḫar-kán-zi na-aš-ta GU₄^ḪI.A ku-i-e-eš ši-pa-an-du-an-zi A-NA PA-NI DINGIR-LIM an-da na-an-ni-ia-an-zi nu-uš-ma-ša-at-kán SI^MEŠ-ŠU-NU SAG.KI^ḪI.A-ŠU-NU-ia an-da ap-pé-eš-kán-zi “In the gate, the purapši- men hold two horns of bovines plated with gold and a mask for the forehead of gold. They hold them to their horns and ‘face’ (of those bovines) that they lead in before the deity.”
Whereas HW 2nd ed. (Ḫ 192) and Tischler 2001a:39 prefer not to specify the ‘Gegenstand aus Gold’, Dinçol & Dinçol 1996a propose the meaning ‘mask for the forehead’, which is accepted in Oettinger 2007b:543 and Tischler 2008a:44.

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The scholars treating the lexeme (see under Meaning) all start from a stem ḫantiyaraḫḫa-, which faces morphological problems (see under Forms). This is further complicated by the fact that, irrespective of whether the attested stem is ḫantiyaraḫḫa- or a derivative of ḫantiyaraḫḫa- in -ašša/i-, the complex suffix -aḫḫa- (combination of factitive -aḫḫ- plus abstract -a-) is so far attested only for Hittite. If the analysis of ḫantiyara- c. as Luwian is correct, is must have been integrated into the Hittite lexicon well enough to serve as derivational basis for a factitive verb *ḫantiyaraḫḫ- ‘to locate in front’ and further to a concretized abstract noun ḫantiyaraḫḫa- ‘object located in front’ → ‘mask for the forehead’. This derivational chain would cast serious doubts on a derivative of Hitt. ḫantiyaraḫḫa- with Luwian -ašša/i-, and instead speaks for the stem ḫantiyaraḫḫa-, in spite of the morphological difficulties.

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For the lemma head see PAnat. *Hant-.