piddur(i)-

The two attestations of the lexeme occur in historical texts about the dealings of Šuppiluliuma II with Alašiya.

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stem form	LÚpí-⸢id-du⸣-ri	KBo 12.38 i 10’	(CTH 121, NS)
unknown	LÚpí-id-du-r[i-	KBo 12.39 rev.! 5	(CTH 141, NS)

On account of the different spelling and the lack of the determinative LÚ, the form pít/pát-tu-ri at KUB 36.95 ii 4 and KUB 19.20 rev. 17 is assigned to a different lemma in CHD P:368 (with references). Also, the contexts speak for the designation of a small-size object.

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Checked against the photographs in the Mainzer Fotoarchiv.

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At KBo 12.38 i 10’, the ^LÚpidduri- is mentioned immediately after the king of Alašiya (Cyprus) as one of two tributaries to the Sun-goddess and the Hittite king, and it has long been a broad consensus that the word denotes the title of a high dignitary of Alašiya (see e.g. HW:452f., Puhvel 1979a:214, CHD P:368, Ünal 2007a:548, HEG P:638, HED P:106f.; for the rejection of ‘Thronfolger’ or ‘Erbprinz’, see Güterbock 1967b:79). More specifically, Steiner 1962a:136 and Otten 1963a:15 suggest that ^LÚpiddur(i)- might be the functional equivalent of the Akk. rābiṣu or Sum. ^LÚmaškim ‘königlicher Kommissär’ (followed in CHD P:368, referring also to alternative interpretations based on the same material). While some scholars keep ^LÚpiddur(i)- distinct from the title pittaur(i)- ‘the Great of Allotments’ (Pecchioli Daddi 1982a:436, Ünal 2007a:548; see under Lemma), others consider them to be identical (HW:452f., Imparati 1974a:73, Puhvel 1979a:214, CHD P:368, HEG P:638, HED P:106f., HHw:133 and 134, Brosch 2008a:49). If correct, like pittaur(i)-, ^LÚpiddur(i)- would be a compound made of pitta- ‘allotment, land-grant’ and ura/i- ‘great’.

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Also in terms of word formation, ^LÚpiddur(i)- and the title pittaur(i)- ‘the Great of Allotments’ may be the same lexeme. Yakubovich 2017a:41-45, building on [9985]Laroche 1956c and Laroche 1956a demonstrated that there are several types of ura/i- compounds: a) an innovated type with ura- as its first member in personal names (e.g. ^mUra-^DU, b) personal names with a stem in -a, to which ura- is added (e.g. ^mMaššana-ura-), c) compounds with a genitive plural as first member used for the titles of dignitaries (^LÚtuppan-ura-‘the Great of tablets’), and d) in Late Luwian compounds without the genitive ending -an, but also without the stem final vowel of the first member (e.g. /ussinass-ur(i)-/, /amurall-ur(i)-/). ^LÚpidd-ur(i)- then belongs to the last type and is its first instance in the second millennium, predating the other occurrences. As in the case of pitta-ur(i)-, the word was assigned to the i-stems in Hittite.

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The compound with the Luwian lexeme ura/i- and the regular transfer to the i-stems in Hittite speak for a Luwian origin (see Yakubovich 2017a:42).For references and/or arguments on several unnecessary loan word hypotheses, see Imparati 1974a:72-74 and CHD P:336.

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For the lemma head, see CLuw. ura/i-.