Kızıl, Abuzer Adiego, Ignasi-Xavier
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Kadmos
This article presents an edition and commentary of a hitherto unpublished Carian inscription found in the ancient settlement of Mengefe, north of Keramos, in 2008. The inscription is carved on the mouth of a pithos and consists of 58 readable signs. The text offers significant new information about Carian.
Egetmeyer, Markus
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Kadmos
Burgin, James M. Yakubovich, Ilya
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Kadmos
The Anatolian hieroglyphic inventory features two phonetic signs conventionally translated as “a”: 〈a〉 = L. 450 and 〈a〉 = L. 19. Their distribution has eluded explanation due to the complicated conventions governing the use of the 〈a〉 sign, which can be placed at the end of a word (“initial-a-final”), replaced with 〈a〉 (“a-substitution”), or delete...
Munn, Mark
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Kadmos
This article presents a corrected reading of the traces of the Old Phrygian inscription on the Arslan Kaya monument in the Phrygian Highlands, attesting to the name of the goddess, Materan, and providing notice of stylistic details that confirm the dating of this monument to the first half or middle of the sixth century BCE.
Monti, Orazio
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Kadmos
The data provided by the Linear B tablets from Knossos concerning the toponyms da-wo and pa-i-to, compared with the archaeological finds at the site of Haghia Triada - in the Cretan Messara Plain - strongly suggest that the Linear B name of this site was da-wo, while pa-i-to indicated only Phaistos.
Billing, Oscar Sasseville, David
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Kadmos
Lydian o-vocalism has proved a difficult problem of historical phonology and the origin of many o-vowels remains unclear. In this paper, one sound law responsible for secondary o-vocalism is presented: the backing of an accented *á when adjacent to k. This sound law provides an etymology for the nominal suffix -oka- and can be supported by several ...
Pestarino, Beatrice
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Kadmos
This paper investigates the eupatridai of Cyprus and their roles on the island. It examines the only two attestations of the Greek term eupatridēs in inscriptions from Amathous and Kafizin, namely IG XV 1.1 n° 7, an original Eteocypriot- alphabetic Greek monumental decree and IG XV 2.1 n° 67, an alphabetic Greek private dedication. Contrary to prev...
Bianconi, Michele
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Kadmos
In this paper, I analyse the Carian gloss σουαγγελα, attested in Stephen of Byzantium. I propose that possible cognates of γελα ‘king’, the second element of the gloss, may be identified in Hittite, Hieroglyphic Luwian, Lycian, and possibly cuneiform Luwian. This analysis incidentally provides viable etymologies for certain Armenian lexemes, which ...
Obrador-Cursach, Bartomeu
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Kadmos
This paper revisits a previously published graffito read among other Greek inscriptions on rock near Salihler, reinterpreting it as an Old Phrygian text that features an anthroponymic sequence. While one of the names, urakas, has been documented previously in Gordion, aᴪiyas is entirely new to the Phrygian corpus. Notably, this identification provi...
Kızıl, Abuzer Adiego, Ignasi-Xavier
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Kadmos
This article presents a new Carian inscription found in the Temple of Zeus Lepsynos in the Carian city of Euromos during excavations carried out in 2022. The inscription is carved on a round altar from the archaic period. The text is brief and incomplete, but its reading does not pose serious problems and an onomastic formula is recognisable.
