PANIS.*402-
‘(unknown)’
- Language
- Hieroglyphic Luwian
- Grammar
- subst
- ID
- 2373
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Hieroglyphic Luwian
PANIS.*402-
‘(unknown)’1.1.1Transmission
This hapax is attested in a single inscription from Karkamiš, dating to the mid-8th century BCE.
[A.P.]
1.1.2Forms
| acc. sg. or pl. | /.../ | PANIS.*402-na | KARKAMIŠ A31+, §16 (Karkamiš) |
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1.1.3Graphic Features
1.1.3.1Phonological Interpretation
The phonological interpretation of this word is unclear, because it is spelt almost wholly logographically. The final syllabic sign may represent either part of the stem and the ending, or only the ending, cf. the discussion of the stem below.
The logogram PANIS (sign *181) is mostly used with HLuw. /turp(i)-/ ‘bread’ and some related words, but whether or not the present word belongs to it remains unknown for the time being. The sign *402 (previously read SCUTELLA) is sometimes found combined with PANIS, and Payne 2017a:77-83 suggests the interpretation SIGNACULUM for it, regarding it as depicting a bread stamp.
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1.1.4Meaning
The meaning of this word is unclear despite the use of two reasonably clear logograms in the spelling. The word occurs only once in a partly destroyed clause at KARKAMIŠ A31+, §16: wa/i-tú-tá PANIS.SCUTELLA-na pi-ha[…], whose phonological and semantic interpretation is mostly unclear beyond ‘(May Kubaba of the 100 kistara- oppose him), and to him …’ (cf. Hawkins 2000a:142). While clearly part of the apodosis of the curse formula that is intended to protect the installation, it remains unknown what punishment is wished upon any evildoers here, since the possible meaning ‘bread stamp’ vel sim. does not appear to fit in the context.
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1.1.5Stem
Unclear. The form attested at KARKAMIŠ A31+, §16 could either be a common acc. sg. or, if neuter gender, a nom./acc. pl.
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