sebe

The conjunction sebe is attested in all Lycian B inscriptions. Schafer 1963a:126f. rightly observes that it occurs more often on the north face of the Xanthos stele (TL 44c) than on the west face (TL 44d). However, contra Schafer (ibid.), this is not a valid argument to posit a different languages for each side.

[D.S.]

In TL 55.4, there is only the upper part of the sign <e> to be seen, whence it looks like an <l>. It is possible that the vertical bar had been forgotten by the carver. Kalinka 1901a:54 restores the <e>. Schürr 2005a:132, 150 with further literature) reads an <l>, but emends to <e>.

[D.S.]

Laroche 1957-1958a:169 analyzes convincingly Lycian B sebe as se + =be and assigns a coordinating function to it ‘(Fr.) et (en outre)’ (followed by Houwink Ten Cate 1961a:75, Schafer 1963a:126, Adiego 1995a:31f., van den Hout 1999a:31-33, DLL:128, Neumann 2007a:312f.). It is generally agreed that the conjunction sebe can join both clauses and noun phrases. Neumann loc. cit. rightly points out that it occurs so often within the same text that it must be functionally equivalent to Lycian A se ‘and’.

Pace Schürr 2005a:150, the conjunction sebe should not be called “proclitic”, since it is often separated by a word divider from the following tonic word, e.g. TL 44c.32 and 56 (sebe : pasbã), TL 44c.32 (sebe : xbadasi), TL 44d.54 (sebe : pigasa). The conjunction sebe was probably stressed in these cases, although there is no way to truly verify its accentual status.

[D.S.]