taqaλa-

This lexeme is found within an inscription that is datable contextually to the 15^th year of the reign of Artaxerxes, either the first (465-424 BCE), the second (404 to 359 BCE), or the third (359-338).

[D.S.]

The word taqaλaν appears to agree in gender, case and number with the following word pištaν; both words occur in the apodosis of a curse formula. Gusmani 1964a:209 takes them as accusative singular in apposition to the enclitic pronoun =aν ‘him (scil. the potential offender)’. A different approach sees pištaν taqaλaν as dative plural, but that does not shed any light on the context either, since too many lexemes in the sentence are semantically obscure.

ak=t=in nãqiš fẽnšλipid fak=at=aν epad [..]ra pištaν taqaλaν šisirors (LW 2.11-12)

‘Whoever destroys (it), they šisiro-ed him/it here (to) pištaν taqaλaν.’

The root taq- of taqaλa- can be etymologically compared to the one of Lyd. taqtula-, also of obscure semantics.

[D.S.]