/usuppatt(i)-/, (“BOS”)u-su-pa-ta-
‘bull sacrifice’
- Language
- Hieroglyphic Luwian
- Grammar
- subst
- ID
- 951
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Hieroglyphic Luwian
/usuppatt(i)-/, (“BOS”)u-su-pa-ta-
‘bull sacrifice’1.1.1Transmission
Attested three times, this word can be found in inscriptions from Commagene, Hama, and Tabal, which date to between the late 10th and mid-8th centuries BCE.
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1.1.2Forms
| abl./instr. | /usuppattadi/ | (“BOS”)u-su-pa-ta-tì | HAMA 4, §11 (Hama) |
| u(-x?)-pa-tara/i | ÇİFTLİK, §13 (Tabal) | ||
| u-su-pa-ta-ti-à | KÜLAFLI TEPE, l. 2b (Commagene) |
In HAMA 4, §11, the word is host to the clitics 〈-ha-wa/i〉, i.e. /=ha=wa/ ‘and’ followed by the demarcational particle. Additionally, the final sign of the lexeme is *41, usually read as 〈tà〉, but interpreted as 〈tì〉 here following Simon 2019c:329f.
The attestation in ÇİFTLİK, §13 includes a different set of clitics: 〈-pa-wa/i-sá〉, i.e. /=ba=wa=as/ ‘but he’ with the demarcational particle intervening.
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1.1.3Graphic Features
1.1.3.1Phonological Interpretation
The phonological interpretation of this lexeme is mainly based on what is known about its second member /suppatt(i)-/ ‘animal sacrifice’, which appears to be based on a borrowing from the Hittite word family around šuppi- ‘(ritually) pure’.The HLuw. words around the concept of ritual purity are based on the adjective /kummaiya-/, see under lemma.
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1.1.4Meaning
This meaning was first suggested by Poetto 1979b:671 and reiterated in Poetto 2017a:53, who analyses the word as a compound consisting of /waw(i)-/ ‘bull’ and /suppatt(i)-/ ‘animal sacrifice’. However, the contexts the word occurs in are challenging, as two are too fragmented to yield much in the way of semantics, and the others are not fully elucidative either. The attestation in HAMA 4, §11 is without doubt the least damaged of the three, yet it cannot be said to be very much clearer than the others: (“BOS”)u-su-pa-ta-tì-ha-wa/i (“FLAMMAE?”)la/i/u-za-li-na NEG2-a (“FLAMMAE?”)la/i/u-sà-la/i/u-sà-ta DEUS-ni-i SUPER+ra/i-a INFRA-ta, possibly /usuppattadi=ha=wa luzzallin na luslussanta massani sarra zanta/ with a tentative interpretation as ‘They did not sacrifice a complete burning with a bull offering to the god up (and) down’, cf. Hawkins 2000a:405f.
To be rejected is the link with Hittite wezzapant- ‘old’, cf. HEG S:119 and HEG W-Z:584 with literature.
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1.1.5Stem
The word is a compound of two free lexemes: /waw(i)-/ ‘bull’ and /suppatt(i)-/ ‘animal sacrifice’ (see under lemma), see Poetto 1979b:671 and Poetto 2017a:53.
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