slãma-

This lexeme is attested in the inscription of the inscribed pillar of Xanthos, dated contextually to shortly after the ascension of Artaxerxes II in 405-404 BCE and stylistically to around 400 BCE (Borchhardt & Eichner 1997-1999a:19f.).

[D.S.]

nom./acc. coll.

slama

TL 44d.26 (Xanthos)

The nominal interpretation follows Melchert (DLL:129) and Gehrisch 2018a:91, contra Shevoroshkin 2011b:154 (2. Sg. impv.); hesitant Neumann 2007a:327 and Schürr 2018b:79.

[D.S.]

The word slama appears to agree with (a)lbãma and serves as the direct object of the verb asxxa ‘I made (iter.)’. From a morphological perspective, slama is a substantivized participle of sla-^(ti) ‘to offer in sacrifice’, which yields the meaning ‘offerings’ (cf. Melchert in DLL:129). This semantic assignment is followed by Gehrisch 2018a:91.

me=ije=(a)lbãma : pssesi : slama keri ḷ^?ẽ prij asxxa (TL 44d.26-27)

Nonetheless, the obscurity of the sentence prevents any certainty.

[D.S.]

We interpret slãma- as a substantivized participle in the collective. Differently, Melchert (DLL:129) who suggests an old men-stem.

[D.S.]

1. slãma-^(ti)

2. Slm͂mewe- (PN) (cf. Neumann 2007a:328)

For the derivational base, see Lyc. B sla-^(ti), and for the lemma head, Lyc. hle/i-.