= Simon Zs., A Goddess and a City or How to Read the Hieroglyphic Luwian Sign MANUS+MANUS, in: AsiAnA 5 131-138. [doi: 10.36253/asiana-1961
Abstract. This paper argues that the unusual determinative MANUS+MANUS
of the goddess Pahalati in Hama that resisted explanation until now can be understood
due to its new attestation in the logographic spelling of a Cilician toponym.
It will be shown that an earlier attempt that identified MANUS+MANUS as a
variant of MAGNUS, the city as Urušša, and the name of the goddess as a Phoenician-
Luwian mixed phrase meaning ‘Great Lady’, is palaeographically, linguistically,
and geographically impossible. A clue to the decipherment of MANUS+MANUS
is provided by the homo(io)phonous settlement in Cilicia, Pahra-, which explains
how the same sign could have been used both as a determinative and as a logogram
in accordance with the regular rules of the usage of the determinatives.] Neue Abfrage | New Search
