anlola-/antola-
‘burial complex, memorial (?)’
- Language
- Lydian
- Grammar
- subst
- ID
- 922
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Lydian
anlola-/antola-
‘burial complex, memorial (?)’1.1.1Transmission
The attestations of this lexeme are limited to burial inscriptions from Sardis. The earliest among the relevant monuments LW 54, is datable to the late 6th-early 5th century BCE, while the others can be dated only more loosely, to the 5th or 4th century BCE.
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1.1.2Forms
| nom./acc. coll. | anlola | ||
| LW 70.1 (Sardis) | |||
| LW 17.2 (Sardis) | |||
| LW 6.3 (Sardis) |
For the spelling anlolaν in LW 17.2, formerly read as antolaν, see Gusmani 1980a:31.
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1.1.3Graphic Features
1.1.3.1Phonological Interpretation
Among the stem variants anlola- and antola-, the first one must be more archaic. The explanation for the change can be either phonetic or graphic. The phonetic solution was advocated for in Bossert 1944a:112 and Heubeck 1959a:20. Both scholars, however, assumed that the variant with -t- is attested twice (see above) and regarded it as the original one. Now that their first premise is untenable and their second one is increasingly unlikely, the graphic explanation for the aberrant spelling antolaν in LW 6.3 emerges as at least equally plausible. If, however, the form antolaν reflects phonetic reality, it can be best analyzed as a result of dissimilation.
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1.1.4Meaning
The noun anlola- occurs in the same contexts where one otherwise finds mru- ‘stele’, as aptly observed in Gusmani 1964a:59, following Bossert 1944a:113. Particularly telling is the context LW 6.3, where one finds anlola- in the list of burial implements between wãna- and laqrisa-, which is the precise position occupied by mru- in LW 1. Note, however, that the semantics of anlola- must be less inclusive, since, unlike mru-, it does not refer to the stelae inscribed with leges sacrae. The translation ‘burial complex, memorial’ adopted here accommodates this difference, but also takes into account the status of anlola- as a collective noun and its etymological link to Lyd. lo-(d) ‘to show reverence (?)’ (Yakubovich 2019b:405).
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1.1.5Stem
The noun under discussion is probably a plurale tantum (Gérard 2005a:83), which appears to be derived with either the suffix -la- or the suffix -l(i)-. For the presence of these derivational suffixes see Sasseville 2014-2015a:117f., but it does not seem possible to differentiate between them in neuter plural forms, so the stem representation anlola-, as opposed to anlol(i)- is primarily homage to tradition. The root of the noun under discussion is probably related to lo-(d) ‘to respect’, whereas an- can be analyzed as the unstressed variant of the prefix e͂n- with broad benefactive semantics. Hence the compositional meaning of the complex derivative an-lo-la- can be reconstructed as “pertaining to respect for someone”, which agrees well with the postulated contextual meaning (Yakubovich 2019b:405).
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For the lemma head see Lyd. lo-(d).