xrbblata-

This lexeme is attested in the inscription of the inscribed pillar of Xanthos, dated contextually to shortly after the ascension of Artaxerxes II in 405-404 BCE and stylistically to around 400 BCE (Borchhardt & Eichner 1997-1999a:19f.) as well as 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.]

As suspected by Neumann 2007a:132, the vowel i at the beginning of the following line surely belongs to the last word of line 8, i.e. xrbbla. In analogy to the substantive xrbblatã, we emend the attested xrbbla // i to xrbbla〈t〉i, which would yield a dative form of the substantive already attested. Schürr 2005a:159 leaves the word as xrbbla, which does not take into account the letter i at the beginning of the next line.

[D.S.]

In TL 44c.62, the word xrbblatã is either modified by xuzrñtasi ‘?’ or trqqñtasi ‘of the Storm-god’. Korolev & Shevoroshkin 1969a:541 and Shevoroshkin (apud Neumann 2007a:132) compare Hitt. ḫarpa- and ḫarpali- n. ‘pile, mound, altar’ and translate the Lycian B word accordingly (followed by Gehrisch 2018a:83), which lacks contextual evidence. Differently, Shevoroshkin 2002c:407f. translates it with ‘supply, provision’, but this does not find any real basis. No meaning is given by Melchert (DLL:136) or Schürr 2016d:179 and, thus, we will refrain from providing one until further evidence emerges.

[D.S.]

No etymological approach is attempted here.

[D.S.]