*235

‘(a type of building)’

Language
Hieroglyphic Luwian
Grammar
subst
ID
3610

1. Individual Anatolian Languages

1.1 Hieroglyphic Luwian

*235

‘(a type of building)’

1.1.1Transmission

This lexeme is attested once in an inscription from Malatya dating to the 12th century BCE. 

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1.1.2Forms

unclear /…/ *235 KARAHÖYÜK (ELBİSTAN), §6 (Malatya)

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1.1.3Graphic Features

1.1.4Meaning

The word and the logogram are attested just once, which the shape of the sign resembling a building with a parapet, similar but not identical to *234 and *236. Laroche 1960c:128 suggests ‘tower, fortification element’, which is possible and tentatively followed by Hawkins 2000a:292. The relevant clause at KARAHÖYÜK (ELBİSTAN), §6 reads: *234 *235 *236 mu-ki-SUPER+ra/i SUPER sa-SUPER, approx. /… mugissari sarra sasarlatta/, perhaps translating as ‘He (scil. the aforementioned great-king Ini-Tešub) offered *234, *235 (and?) *236 up in payer’ vel sim. (cf. Hawkins 2000a:289).

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