ROTA
‘chariot (?)’
- Language
- Hieroglyphic Luwian
- Grammar
- subst
- ID
- 3118
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Hieroglyphic Luwian
ROTA
‘chariot (?)’1.1.1Transmission
This hapax is attested in a single inscription from Konya, dating to the 13th century BCE.
[A.P.]
1.1.2Forms
| acc. sg. | /…/ | ROTA | YALBURT frag. B, §2 (Konya) |
[A.P.]
1.1.3Graphic Features
1.1.3.1Phonological Interpretation
The phonological interpretation of this word is unclear, since the uncomplemented logogram gives no hint as to any possible cognates.
The logogram ROTA (sign *292) is otherwise found in combinations with other logograms and used for determining HLuw. /zallall(a)-/ ‘cart’; cf. also Carruba 1998d:272 and Payne 2015a:37 on the syllabic interpretation of the sign.
[AH.B.] [A.P.]
1.1.4Meaning
The meaning is assigned by Poetto 1993a:48-52 based on the pictographic nature of the logogram ROTA, depicting a wheel with spokes, and the context of attestation. Insofar as the latter is intelligible, YALBURT frag. B, §2 reads: MAGNUS.REX PLANTA(REGIO) EXERCITUS CENTUM? ROTA i(a)-zi/a, approx. /hantawatturi … kwalani …-ni … izziyanta/, perhaps translating as ‘They made 100 chariots for the army of the Great King of the PLANTA region’ (cf. also Hawkins 1995a:68f., 78).
[AH.B.]