/tiwad-/, SOL-tà-

This presupposed hapax is attested in a single inscription from Commagene, dating to the 9^th or 8^th century BCE.

[A.P.]

gen. sg.(?)

/tiwadas(sa)/

SOL-tà-sa

SAMSAT frag. 1 (Commagene)

The grammatical analysis of the form attested in SAMSAT frag. 1 is to be understood as provisional, because the text is too fragmented to permit any certainty in this matter. Instead, the identification relies on the fact that the form is without i-mutation, which would be expected to surface in a non-oblique case form.

[A.P.] [AH.B.]

The single attestation of this noun appears on a fragment of an inscription, and the remaining legible words cannot be reliably assigned to clauses. It is possible that a new clause starts about a third into the fragment: wa/i-tà CUM-ni SOL-tà-sa kwa/i-ti x-sa á-pa-ti-i […], approx. /wa=ada anni tiwadas(a) kwatti …-s abatti … /, but the passage is too fragmented for a semantic interpretation. What seems clear, however, is that the word is not preceded by the logogram DEUS, suggesting that the reference is merely the sun here rather than the sun-god.

[AH.B.]

Although not provable on the basis of the attested form, it is assumed that the word is a common gender noun like its polyseme /Tiwad-/, the name of the sun-god. Likewise unclear from the attested forms is whether or not the noun inflects as a consonantal stem or has been shifted to a different stem class, most likely by i-mutation. Only further evidence can shed light on the matter.

[AH.B.]

For the lemma head see HLuw. */tiw-/.