kojoλ

Hapax in a Carian false-door stele inscription from Memphis from 530-500 (Kammerzell 1993a:159–161, 163–172; cf. also O. Masson 1978a:6f.).

[Zs.S.]

nom. sg.

kojoλ

E.Me 44.1

Attestation following Adiego 2007a:374 checked against the available photograph (O. Masson 1978a:Pl. XX/I, 1).

[Zs.S.]

Adiego 2007a:271 with n. 11, 374 rightly points out that the text (apmen šrquqś kojoλ k̑i mwtonś k̑i) requires an ethnic name or a title or something similar. His own suggestion, an ethnic name from the name of the island of Kos, is, however, not without problems. First, he himself objects that the person in question is Egyptian or at least bears an Egyptian name (Apmen), which would require a late adoption of an Egyptian name and thus he calls attention to the analysis of Schürr, cf. below (but he classifies this word as an ethnic name referring to Kos in Adiego 2004a:310, Adiego 2010b:165f., Adiego 2013a:21 without any further remark). Nevertheless, this is not necessarily a problem, since it cannot be excluded that kojoλ refers to Šrquq (on the lack of agreement see the discussion of the inscriptions E.Me 17, E.Me 18 and E.Me 33 s.v. k̑i) and one cannot exclude the possibility of an Egyptian toponym either (Simon 2008b:463 n. 35). Unfortunately, mwton cannot be used as an argument, since, even if it represents the misspelling of mwdon, the meaning of mwdon (ethnic name or profession) is not clear, see s.v.

The second problem with the assumption of an ethnic name is that only -s(i)-, -i-, and -yn- are attested until now as ethnic suffixes (Adiego 2007a:269f., cf. also Adiego 2004a:310, Adiego 2010b:165f., Adiego 2013a:21), but not -oλ (on the problem of the at least graphically zero suffix s.v. β₂o[…]ol). This argues for a title or profession. Schürr 1992a:155 indeed suggested (with question mark) a title comparing it with the words nuoλ° and sarmroλ° in E.Me 4 and connecting it with Carian κοῖον ‘sheep, (small) cattle’, thus implicitly assuming a meaning ‘shepherd’ (followed by Simon 2008b:463 n. 35). However, the existence of nuoλ° and sarmroλ° cannot be verified (cf. Adiego 2007a:390 and here s.v. nuoλk̑[---]sarmroλk̑yt). Nevertheless, considering that -oλ reflects -alla- (cf. Adiego 2007a:258 and Sasseville 2014-2015a:111 n. 15), one may identify it with the frequent Luwic suffix -alla-, which was also used for professions (for an overview see Giusfredi 2010b:149–160 and Sasseville 2014-2015a, esp. 109f., 116f.) and thus Schürr’s suggestion provides a both formally and semantically fitting solution.

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