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The Decipherment of Minoan Linear A, Volume I, Part IV: Hurrians and Hurrian in Minoan Crete: Indices and glossaries 2

The Decipherment of Minoan Linear A, Volume I, Part IV: Hurrians and Hurrian in Minoan Crete: Indices and glossaries 2

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Series: The Decipherment of Minoan Linear a, Book 4

Religion General Ancient GreeceGeneral World History

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ISBN10: 9083275434
ISBN13: 9789083275437
Publisher: Peter G. Van Soesbergen
Published: Sep 17 2022
Pages: 514
Weight: 2.69
Height: 1.03 Width: 8.27 Depth: 11.69
Language: English
THE DECIPHERMENT OF MINOAN LINEAR A - VOLUME I - PART IV

It is significant that at least three toponyms can be recognized in the Messara-valley that have a Hurrian origin. The oldest is Linear A pa-i-to (HT 97a.3; HT 120.6). It is a genuine Hurrian toponym meaning 'He/She (a God/the King) has built (the palace)' and it is equivalent to Old Hurrian ba-'à-ás-to/um in the Tis-atal inscription, analysed and normalised as pa=ast=o=m, and translated as 'He (Tis-atal) has built (a temple)', cf. Th. Richter (BGH, 285-286), s.v. pa-, paḫ- II [passim] 'to build', pa('/h)-, cf. G. Wilhelm, 1988b, 55. The following phases of phonetic development are likely: ba-'à-ás-to/um = pa('/h)=ast=o=m > pa=j=ast=o=m > pa=j=(a)st=o=m > pa=j=st=o=m (wr. pa-i-to in Linear A). Transitional glide -j- (-i- in Linear A pa-i-to) distinguished -a- of the root pa- from the -a- of root-extension -ast- and eventually the -a- of -ast- disappeared as a result of syncope. For Linear B pa-i-to (KN Da 1163+1400, al.) the Old Hurrian ending in =o=m had to be changed into a Hellenized form in -oς (-os): Φαιστός (Phaistos).

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