tue[…]

Hapax from one of the Greek-Sidetic bilinguals from Side of unknown date (but before the period of emperor Claudius, when the block was re-used, Nollé 2001a:633).

[Zs.S.]

dat. pl.

(sg.?)

tue[…]

S2

The attestation follows Pérez Orozco 2007a:136 checked against the photos of Bossert 1950b:Lev. II and Bean 1965a:Fig. 1. See under Meaning for its grammatical definition.

[Zs.S.]

On the transcription ‹t›, the precise phonetic value of which still needs further research, see s.v. *ubat (its transcription as ‹š› introduced by Pérez Orozco 2020a is not accepted here, see the detailed discussion in Simon 2021a). Schürr 2016b would read ‹u› as ‹w›, which is not supported here, see the discussion in Simon 2020e:201 n. 3.

[Zs.S.]

Since the only words preserved in the Sidetic version of the inscription beyond the name of the donor are tue[…] preceded by the word masara, which is generally supposed to mean ‘gods [dat. pl.]’ (see s.v.), and the Greek version has “(…) ἀνέθηκεν (…) θεοῖς πᾶσι”, two different interpretations (and etymologies) have been proposed by Ševoroškin 1975a:160 (setting aside the proposals in the earlier research based on obsolete readings): First, tue[…] is the equivalent of ἀνέθηκεν and, accordingly, means ‘set up’ presenting a cognate of Luwian tūwa- ‘to put, place’, etc. (identically, but without reference to Ševoroškin, Woudhuizen 1984-1985a:123 and Zinko 2016a:370 [“am ehesten”]). Second, masara tue[…] is the equivalent of θεοῖς πᾶσι and, accordingly, tue[…] means ‘all’ (followed by Nollé 2001a:234; Pérez Orozco 2007a:136f., Pérez Orozco 2020a:166f. [with question mark]; Nikolaev 2017a:219f.; see already Neumann 1961a:41 [implicitly]). However, as pointed out by Nollé 2001a:634 (and followed by Nikolaev 2017a:219f.), θεοῖς πᾶσι does not mean ‘to all gods’ but ‘to All Gods’ being an actual cult name, the Sidetic equivalent of which would be masara tue[…] (this practically excludes the alternative proposal of Pérez Orozco 2020a:166 n. 103, a Sidetic equivalent of εἰκόνα, a possible cognate of Lycian A tukedre/i- ‘statue’). If masara indeed means ‘gods’, and this is very probable (see s.v.), then the latter analysis is clearly more probable and, accordingly, it is followed here. This translation implies a dative plural for tue[…], although strictly speaking, as pointed out already by Bossert 1961a:116, the Greek phrase could also have been expressed by a collective term in Sidetic and thus, in dative singular (also Eichner 1988b:46 n. 9 assumes dat. sg., albeit with question mark).

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