šeḫelli/a-

‘purifying ritual’

Language
Hittite
Class
Derivative
Grammar
subst, c.
ID
550

1. Individual Anatolian Languages

1.1 Luwian (Glossenkeilwörter)

šeḫelli/a-

‘purifying ritual’

1.1.1Transmission

CHD Š:347 cautiously assumes that the Glossenkeil preceding SISKUR!še-ḫe-el-lu-uš in KUB 18.41 obv. 26 may indicate the indentation of the line: this is very probable, since we are dealing with the last, indented line of a column and of a paragraph, which is one of the typical places of a Glossenkeil, when it is used for text-structuring purposes (Souček 1957-1971a:440; Groddek 2015a:135 n. 609; cf. already Forrer 1922a:215). In other words, this attestation is a not a real Glossenkeilwort. Note also that none of the Hittite and Luwian lexica treat it as a Glossenkeilwort (Friedrich 1952a:189; Laroche 1959a; CLL; Ünal 2007a:626, Ünal 2016a:473; Tischler 2008a:166, Tischler 2016a:314, HEG T,D:970 and it does not appear in the Glossenkeilwort lists of van den Hout 2007a and Zorman 2016a, neither in the list of Luvianisms of Melchert 2005a).

[Zs.S.]

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