ḫalḫalzān(i)-

The word is found frequently in the ritual of the Kuwattalla tradition.

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acc. sg.	[ḫa]l-ḫal-za-a-ni-in	KUB 35.73, 10’	(CTH 763, NS)
	ḫal-ḫal-za-a-ni-i[n]	KBo 29.10 ii 4’	(CTH 760, MS?)
	ḫal-ḫal-za-ni-in	KUB 35.12 iii 2	(CTH 762, NS)
	ḫal-ḫal-za-ni-i[n]	KUB 35.33 iii 5’	(CTH 762, NS)
	〈ḫal〉-⸢ḫal-za-a-ni-in⸣	KUB 35.48 ii 16!	(CTH 760, NS)
	ḫal-ḫal-za-ni-in	KUB 35.45 ii 23	(CTH 760, NS)
	[ḫal-ḫal-za-ni-i]n	KUB 35.43 iii 3	(CTH 761, NS)
erg. sg.	[ḫal-ḫal-za-na]-an-te-eš	KBo 29.20 iii 5’	(CTH 762, NS)

Checked against the photographs in the Mainzer Fotoarchiv. – For emendation at KUB 35.48 ii 16^!, see Starke 1985b:155. – For the restoration of [ḫal-ḫal-za-na]-an-te-eš at KBo 29.20 iii 5’, see Sasseville 2021a:557.

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The word appears in a list between magically affected body parts and other bodily features, e.g., alam-ša mi-i-ša-an-za ḫa-aš-ša ḫal-ḫal-za-ni-in ú-wa-ra-an-na-ḫi-ša i-ú-na-ḫi-ša la-al-pí-in ku-wa-an-na-ni-in ma-aš-ša-na-al-li-in kaskal-an KUB 35.45 ii 22–24 ‘figure, flesh (and) bones, ḫ., capacity to speak, capacity to walk, eyelash, (eyebrow), divine path’ (šalli aniur, CTH 761; cf. Starke 1985b: 152f., Kammenhuber 1986a:88-92), which led Carruba 1969b:71 n. 51 and Puhvel 1988a to assume a body part. They suggested further an interpretation as ‘shoulder’ (Carruba: ‘shoulder’ or ‘head’) on account of the putative cognate ḫalḫaldān(a)-, also a body part, and more specifically one on which a vessel could be placed (nu-za a-ru-na-aš ^DUGḪAB.ḪAB-x[                 ]x ḫal-ḫal-da-a-ni-iš-ši da-iš “and the Sea place the ^DUGḪAB.ḪAB-vessel ... on its (own) ḫalḫaldān(a)-,” KUB 36.44 rev. 7’f.). Oettinger 2016a:276-278 adds that the reduplicated root with its likely iterative semantics supports the idea of a body part. The same translation is offered in Berman 1972a:37, Puhvel 1988a, HED H:22, Pecchioli Daddi & Polvani 1990a:64, Poetto 1995a:31-33, Melchert 2003f:286f. (considering also ‘loins’ as an alternative). However, HW 2nd ed. Ḫ:29f. and Ünal 2007a:148 reject the equation of the two nouns without argument. Indeed, definite proof for semantic identity is lacking in view of the very different contexts and that of ḫalḫalzān(i)- being uninformative.No translation in Otten 1953a:64, DLL:38, Hoffner 1998b:27; generic ‘(a body part)’ in CLL:47, HHw:36, Yakubovich 2014a:285; implausible Carruba 1990a:250f.

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Obviously, ḫalḫalzān(i)- features the reduplication of the root (cf. Puhvel 1988a:256f., HED H:22, Oettinger 2016a:276-278). The same applies to Hitt. ḫalḫaldān(a)-. Therefore, while an exact semantic match of ḫalḫalzān(i)- and ḫalḫaldān(a)- remains unproven, a common base *ḫalḫal-t- can be assumed for both stems as well as for Hitt. ḫalḫal-t-umar ‘shoulder’ (see Melchert 1983a:13f., Kimball 1999a:394). If correct, ḫalḫalzān(i)- contains the complex suffix -zan- (< *-t-i̯-(h_1/3)on-) as paralleled in, e.g., Hitt. laḫḫanza(n)- ‘shelduck’ (with *-ont-i̯o-(h_1/3)on-) and, at least in part, in the borrowed Luwian personal name ^mZidanza (with *-ont-i̯o-) (for the suffixes, see Melchert 2003d).

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Assured attestations of the word in Hittite transmission are extant only in the ritual for the Sun-goddess of the Earth.

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Checked against the photographs in the Mainzer Fotoarchiv. – HW 2nd ed. Ḫ:29 rejects the restoration of [ḫal]-ḫa-al-za-ni-it at KUB 7.55 obv. 7 and reads iš^?-ta^?-an-za-na-az at KUB 33.120 iii 2 (with references).

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Like ḫalḫalzān(i)- ‘(a body part)’ in Luwian context, ḫalḫalzana- occurs in a list of body parts in a similar position: ḫa-aš-ta-a-i ⸢⸣ḫal-ḫal-za-na-an in-ni-ri-i-〈in〉 la-ap-li-pí-in za-ma-an-gur ‘bone(s), ḫ., eyebrow, eyelash, beard’ (KUB 24.12 iii 5’-7’; cf. Taracha 2000a:90f.). Therefore, the homonymous words can safely be equated (for a unified treatment, see CLuw. ḫalḫalzān(i)- above).

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See under CLuw. ḫalḫalzān(i)-.

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The Luwian origin assumed for ḫalḫalzana- (and ḫalḫanzana-) emerges from the use of the gloss wedge, its occurrence in Cuneiform Luwian context and the switch between /-lts-/ and /-nts-/ (cf. HED H:22, Puhvel 1988a, Melchert 2003f:286f., Yakubovich 2014a:285, Oettinger 2016a:276-278).

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