kuwannan(i)-

Attested in Luwian ritual fragments in NS and perhaps in MS.

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acc. sg. c.	ku-wa-an-na-ni-in	KUB 35.45 ii 24	(CTH 760, NS)
	˹ku-wa-an˺-na-ni-in	KUB 35.48 ii 17’	(CTH 760, NS)
	ku-wa-an-na-˹ni˺-in	KUB 32.8 iii 15’	(CTH 759, NS)
	[ku-wa-an-na]-˹ni˺-in	KUB 35.12 iii 4	(CTH 762, NS)
	[ku-wa]-˹an˺-na-ni-i-in	KBo 29.10 ii 6’	(CTH 760, MS?)

The attestations follow CLL:115, checked against the photographs of the Mainzer Fotoarchiv. Starke 1990a:606 reads [ku-wa-an-na-ni]-ịn in KBo 29.37, 7’ instead of [ ]x-aš of Starke 1985b:380, which is contextually possible, but the tablet is too fragmentary to verify any of the readings.

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As pointed out by Meriggi 1957a:223 (cf. Meriggi 1957b:59), the spell in KUB 32.8 iii 11’-16’ corresponds to the ritual description in KUB 32.8 iii 6’-8’, where kuwannan(i)- is the equivalent of Hitt. enera- ‘eyebrow’. This identification enjoys a widespread agreement (Carruba 1982b:2; HW 2nd ed. E:37; Starke 1990a:422 n. 1520; CLL:115; Poetto 1995b:31; HED K:310; Reichardt 1998a:134; Taracha 2000a:154; Haas 2003a:559; Tischler 2008a:193 [though earlier only as ‘body part’ with question mark, HEG A-K:690, also Laroche 1959a:59, 156]; Goedegebuure 2010a:303; Yakubovich 2012a:333; Dardano 2013b:131; Sideltsev 2014a:858), the only exception is Giusfredi 2017b:14, who calls this meaning “tentative”.

Kammenhuber 1986a:89 with n. 8 earlier translated it as ‘eyelash’ based on the assumption that Luw. lalpi- kuwannani- corresponds to Hitt. enera- lapli/apa- ‘eyebrow (and) eyelash’, which is, however, not the case, since the order of the Hittite phrase is not set (cf. HW 2nd ed. E:36f.), and, more importantly, the only case where lalpi- kuwannani- parallels a Hittite phrase is the above quoted passage, where it, however, corresponds to lapliep[an] enieran (KUB 32.8 iii 7’-8’). Accordingly, she has implicitly withdrawn this interpretation in HW 2nd ed. E:37.

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Last updated: 25 October 2020