REX.*398
‘(something connected to the king)’
- Language
- Hieroglyphic Luwian
- Grammar
- adj
- ID
- 3063
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Hieroglyphic Luwian
REX.*398
‘(something connected to the king)’1.1.1Transmission
The word is attested twice in the Emirgazi altars, dating to the second half of the 13th century BCE.
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1.1.2Forms
| acc. pl. c. | /…/ | REX.*398-za/i | EMİRGAZİ 1A, §26 (Emirgazi) |
| EMİRGAZİ 1B, §26 (Emirgazi) |
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1.1.3Graphic Features
1.1.3.1Phonological Interpretation
Unknown. The shape of sign *398 resembles a horizontal bar, similar to the number sign DECEM (*397). Its meaning has yet to be elucidated, not least because it occurs only rarely and usually paired with other logograms as in the present case.
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1.1.4Meaning
Unknown. Hawkins 1995a:99 suggests ‘royal’ vel sim. due to the presence of REX and the context, but the role of *398 remains unclear. The clause at EMİRGAZİ 1A, §26 is quite long and part of an elaborate curse formula extending over several clauses: *a-wa/i-tu-tá (DEUS)SOL SOL+RA/I (DEUS)TONITRUS CAELUM CERVUS3.DEUS.*463-ti (DEUS)MONS.THRONUS á-(FEMINA.DEUS)*461 REX.*398-za/i sara/i-za/i INFRA tara/i-za/i-nú-wa/i-tu, approx. /a=wa=du=tta … Arinna Tarhunz tippasassis Immarakruntiyas … Alas ...-nzi sarinzi zanta tarzanuwantu/, meaning ‘(But the king who damages these stelae …), for him, the sun-goddess of Arinna, the storm-god Tarhunt of Heaven, the stag-god Kruntiya of the Open Country, Mount Sarpa, the goddess Ala shall overturn the REX.*398- sar(i)-!’ (Hawkins 1995a:88f.).
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