GUL-zattar/n-
‘incription, wood tablet’
- Language
- Luwian
- Grammar
- subst, neuter
- ID
- 1864
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Luwian (Glossenkeilwörter)
GUL-zattar/n-
1.1.1Transmission
This lexeme is found in the prayer of Muwattalli II to the Storm-god of Kummanni (CTH 382), the cult of Teššup and Ḫebat of Aleppo (CTH 698), Oracle regarding Arma-Tarḫunta and Šaušgatti (CTH 569), and in cult inventories and various other fragments. So far, we could only find one attestation with a gloss wedge. Starke 1990a:457 points out that all attestations of this lexeme are found in (Late) New Hittite texts.
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1.1.2Forms
| nom./acc. sg. | GIŠ.ḪURGUL-za-at-tar | KUB 50.6 iii 18 | (CTH 569, NS) |
| GIŠGUL-za-at-tar | KpT 1.39 i 40 | (CTH 527, LNS) | |
| GIŠ.ḪURGUL-za-tar | KBo 31.47 iv 7’ | (CTH 297, NS) | |
| GIŠGUL-za-tar | KpT 1.41 i 15 | (CTH 527, LNS) | |
| ]GUL-za-tar | IBoT 3.101 obv. 4’ | (CTH 470, NS) | |
| abl. (Hitt.) | GUL-za-at-ta-na-az-z(=) |
KBo 11.1 obv. 21 | (CTH 382, NS) |
| GIŠ.ḪURGUL-za-at-ta-na-az | KBo 11.1 obv. 41 | (CTH 382, NS) | |
| GIŠGUL-za-at-na-za | KpT 1.36 i 25 | (CTH 529, LNS) | |
| GIŠ.ḪURGUL-za-da-na-za | KUB 42.103 iii? 14’ | (CTH 698, LNS) | |
| nom./acc. pl. (?) | GIŠ.ḪURGUL-za-at-tar-˹ra˺-x[ | KUB 50.6 iii? 12’ | (CTH 569, NS) |
| nom./acc. pl. (Hitt.) | GIŠGUL-za-at-tar-riḪI.A | KBo 55.181, 6’ | (CTH 530, LNS) |
| GUL-za-at-tarḪI.˹A˺ | KUB 58.7 ii 23’ | (CTH 528, LNS) | |
| GUL-za-tarḪI.A | KUB 42.100+ obv. 37 | (CTH 526, NS) |
Not all attestations are listed in the table above, only a representative sample.
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1.1.3Graphic Features
The attestation GIŠ.ḪURGUL-za-at-tar-˹ra˺-x[, whose last sign has been read as the particle =pát is not certain, although its first position within the sentence makes it likely that we are dealing with a particle chain. Therefore, GIŠ.ḪURGUL-za-at-tar-˹ra˺= or GIŠ.ḪURGUL-za-at-tar-˹r=a˺ are equally possible. For the reading of GUL as logogram, see under Luw. /kwanza(i)-(di)/.
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1.1.4Meaning
The lexeme GUL-zattar/n- refers to a writing of some kind or is concretized to a wood tablet for writing: Starke 1990a:457 ‘(Vor-)Zeichnung, Entwurf, Kladde, Holztafel’, HED K:243 ‘inscription, (with GIŠ.ḪUR) wood-tablet inscription’, HEG A-K:629 ‘writing, clay tablet’, EDHIL:492, Cammarosano 2018a:343 ‘writing boards’, Cammarosano 2019a:85 ‘Holztafel’.
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1.1.5Stem
The suffix -attar/n- is typical of Luwian abstract nouns, whereas Hittite has generalized the lenited variant -ātar/n-.
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1.1.6Origin
The Luwian origin of the noun is assured by the sound -z- after GUL, whereas Hittite has GUL-š-, and by its formation in -attar/n- (Starke 1990a:457-462, CLL:108, HED K:243, EDHIL:492f., Waal 2014a:1022-1024, Yakubovich 2014a, Melchert 2016g, Waal 2019aa, Sasseville 2021a:88f.).
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For the lemma head see *gu̯hén-/*gu̯hn-´(ti).