kapsaqe-

This lexeme is found once in the poetical inscription engraved on the lion sarcophagus of Antiphellos, dated on stylistic grounds to the beginning of the 4^th century BCE (Zahle 1979a:318, Mühlbauer 2007a:91).

[D.S.]

acc. sg.

kapsaqẽ

TL 55.6 (Antiphellos)

Differently, Schürr 2005a:140 suggests a genitival plural, which is formally possible, but syntactically unclear; cf. under Meaning.

[D.S.]

The word kapsaqẽ is modified by the preceding adjective lbbeweli, a formation in -ele/i-, which confirms its common gender status. It also constitutes the direct object of the verb pina-^(ti) ‘to grant’. Shevoroshkin 2002a:219, 223 very tentatively translates kapsaqe- as ‘spoils, war trophies’. No meaning is suggested by Gehrisch 2018a:108. In any case, the word kapsaqe- is clearly some kind of offering granted for a war:

               seb(e)=erbḅi ḳm͂q̣i=ke : lbbeweli ) kapsaqẽ : pinau … (TL 55.6)

               ‘and for the war and the km̃qi I grant a lbbeweli kapsaqẽ…’

Without a solid etymology, the exact meaning remains obscure.

[D.S.]

The word kapsaqe- is a compound made of *kapsa- and *qe-.

[D.S.]