tukedrele/i-
‘pertaining to a statue’
- Language
- Lycian B
- Grammar
- adj
- ID
- 583
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Lycian B
tukedrele/i-
‘pertaining to a statue’1.1.1Transmission
This lexeme is found in various grave inscriptions as well as on the inscribed pillar of Xanthos dated contextually to shortly after the ascension of Artaxerxes II in 405-404 BCE and stylistically around 400 BCE (Borchhardt & Eichner 1997-1999a:19f.).
[D.S.]
1.1.2Forms
| nom./acc. pl. n. | tu[k]adrala | TL 44d.8-9 (Xanthos) |
1.1.3Meaning
Meriggi 1937a:514 suggests that Lycian B tu[k]adrala is a derivative of the noun found in Lycian A tukedre/i- ‘statue’ and thus translates ‘statuary’ (followed by DLL:132). This is made plausible by the fact that tukadrala modifies something in relation to Gergis (gen. adj. nom./acc. pl. n. xerigasa), whose representation as a statue sat on top of the grave chamber supported by the pillar of the inscription (Borchhardt & Eichner 1997-1999a:47).
[D.S.]
2. Reconstruction
2.1Reconstruction
For the lemma head see Lyc. A tukedre/i-.