prulija-

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.), as well as on a new dedicatory inscription from a place near Pinara.

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nom./acc. coll.	prulija	TL 44b.1 (Xanthos)
	p̣rulịj̣[a?	N 348.1 (Aloanda)

Neumann 2007a:286 points that the sentence in TL 44b.1 specifies that the prulija, said to be Greek (ijãna), are located at a certain precinct, which speaks for something concrete (and not something abstract as previously thought). Based on the context, Melchert 2002c:249 tentatively suggests the meaning ‘war trophies’.Contra Gehrisch 2018a:69 ‘stone monuments’. This interpretation is further defended by Sasseville 2021c, who shows that the prulija have been collected during the war by Gergis himself and set up in various Lycian towns in honor of the god of war. The new attestation restored as [ebeij]a : prulij[a ‘these prulija here’ (Onur & Tekoğlu 2020a:18f.) further confirms that it refers to objects that can be dedicated. Therefore, the inscription N 348 must describe the dedication of war trophies. For a summary of the outdated literature, see Neumann 2007a:286.

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Because of its semantics, the noun prulija- is interpreted as a collective noun (thus also DLL:52).

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No convincing etymology has been suggested so far; cf. Neumann 2007a:296.

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