haxlaza-

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. sg.

haxlaza

TL 44a.51 (Xanthos)

The noun haxlaza is the subject of the predicate pabra-^(ti) ‘to commission’ and is modified by xbide hrixñtawatahi ‘of the supreme rule in Kaunos’, which is why Schürr 1998a:152 deduces that it must refer to a high-ranking representative of the Persian king (followed by Melchert in DLL:22, Sasseville 2021c:165). For the identification of the haxlaza- in the passage as Hystaspes, son of Pissouthnes and brother of the rebel Amorges, see Schürr 1998a:156, Hyland 2021a:260-262, 266 and Sasseville 2021d:184 n. 28. The meaning ‘governor’ is thus attributed to haxlaza- also in analogy to the parallel formation asaxlaza- ‘curator, governor’ (Carruba 1977a:284, Serangeli 2015b:166, Sasseville 2021c:165). For a summary of outdated hypotheses, see Laroche 1979c:83 n. 6, Cau 1999c:29 with n. 33 and Neumann 2007a:89.

[D.S.]

The formation haxlaza- is built in the same way as asaxlaza- (see under lemma), except that it contains a different preverb, i.e. ha- (cf. DLL:22 and Neumann 2007a:89).

[D.S.]

For the lemma head, see Lyc. A xal-^(ti).