*234
‘(a type of building)’
- Language
- Hieroglyphic Luwian
- Grammar
- subst
- ID
- 3609
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Hieroglyphic Luwian
*234
‘(a type of building)’1.1.1Transmission
This lexeme is attested twice in an inscription from Malatya dating to the 12th century BCE.
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1.1.2Forms
| dat./loc. sg. | /…/ | *234 | KARAHÖYÜK (ELBİSTAN), §17 (Malatya) |
| dat./loc. sg. or. pl. | /…/ | *234 | KARAHÖYÜK (ELBİSTAN), §6 (Malatya) |
Against Hawkins 2000a:290, the string at KARAHÖYÜK (ELBİSTAN), §17 is not read as 〈*234.SUPER〉, but the two logograms are assumed here to be separate words, cf. the discussion of the meaning below. The attestation is taken to represent the same word as the occurrence earlier in the same text at §6.
[A.P.] [AH.B.]
1.1.3Graphic Features
1.1.3.1Phonological Interpretation
Unclear. Outdated is the reading suggested by Nowicki 1983a:114, who considers KARAHÖYÜK (ELBİSTAN), §17 to read 〈*234.SUPER〉 and represent /kuttassar(i)-/ ‘orthostat’. Given that /kuttassar(i)-/ always involves the logogram SCALPRUM and never uses a rebus spelling with SUPER, an identification seems farfetched.
[AH.B.]
1.1.4Meaning
The logogram is assumed to indicate a type of building, both by its shape, which resembles a house or tower with a parapet, and its context of attestation. Laroche 1960c:128 suggests ‘tower, fortification element’, which is possible and tentatively followed by Hawkins 2000a:292. KARAHÖYÜK (ELBİSTAN), §17 reads: *234 SUPER *263-tá-na-sa5 DOMUS-zi/a i(a)-zi/a-ha, approx. /… sarra …-ttanas parnan=za izziha/, translating as ‘Over *234, I made a house of *263’ vel sim. (cf. Hawkins 2000a:290).Note that Hawkins reads the present lexeme as 〈*234.SUPER〉 and thus translates the clause as ‘I made *234.SUPER as a house of *263’.
[AH.B.]