titbe-^(ti)

This lexeme is found 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.). It is also found 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.]

3sg. pres. act.	tiṭbeti	TL 55.2 (Antiphellos)
	tetbeti	TL 44d.33 (Xanthos)

For the interpretation as a reduplicated verbal form, see Heubeck 1985a:45; contra Eichner 1993a:146 ‘(adv.) allenthalben’, Melchert (DLL:130, nom. sg. of a personal name) and Schürr 2018b:80 (nom. sg. c. of a substantive).

[D.S.]

The letter ṭ in tiṭbeti has variously been read as ṛ instead, i.e. tirbeti (see Schürr 2005a:124, 152 with further literature, DLL:130, Neumann 2007a:365f.). The reading with ṭ is more attractive based on Schürr’s photo as well as on the comparison with tetbeti. If one accepts the two verbs in the table under Forms as belong to the same lexeme, an emendation of the vowel of the reduplicated syllable seems necessary; cf. under Meaning.

[D.S.]

Lyc.B tetbeti (TL 44d.33) represents an action asyndetically coordinated with ta-^(di) ‘to place’, both taking lacra, something dedicated to a god, as their direct object. The comparison with Lyc. A tebe-^(ti) ‘to defeat’ is contextually implausible (pace Heubeck 1985a:45, Lebrun 1990a:164, Shevoroshkin 2002a:230). A reduplicated formation derived from tuwe-^(ti) ‘to set up’ is more plausible and contextually adequate (also in TL 55, likewise a dedicatory context). The vowel of the reduplicated syllable i or e is difficult, although a comparison with xixba-^(ti) makes it more probable that the vowel i is the correct one. Awaiting further evidence, we will refrain from emending tetbeti to ti^!tbeti.

[D.S.]

For the stem formation, see the base of the derivative Lyc. tuwe-^(ti).

[D.S.]