Baris Gür & Semra Dalkiliç (eds.), A Life Dedicated to Anatolian Prehistory, Festschrift for Jak Yakar, Ankara. Pp. 465-477, 2020
In the present paper the relevant data concerning the Lydian yod-sign will be scrutinized. It wil... more In the present paper the relevant data concerning the Lydian yod-sign will be scrutinized. It will be argued that this sign, contrary to its current transliteration as a secondary n, in line with its epigraphic origin renders the value i 1 and has to be transliterated in contradistinction from the straight iota as i 1. To this aim the use of the sign in grammatical endings and in vocabulary words will be reviewed. Time and again it will appear that the reading of the sign as i 1 results in forms straight for wardly paralleled for the Luwian language. The new reading, amply illustrated in this manner, therefore leads to the conclusion that Lydian, notwithstanding its own dialectal development during the Early Iron Age, is a direct descendant of the Arzawan language of the Late Bronze Age and hence an ordinary Luwian dialect.
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Abstract. One of the most controversial subjects in Mediterranean pre- and protohistory is the dating of the eruption of the volcano on the island of Santorini (ancient Thera). Although adherents of the traditional method of dating and those of the so-called scientific method of dating seem to reach common ground and assign the eruption to ca. 1600-1550 BC, such a date is at odds with the evidence from the Egyptian king lists. A way out of this dilemma is provided by archaeological evidence in the form of tephra found in destruction layers of archaeological sites on Crete. This tephra points to a dating of the Santorini eruption not during Late Minoan IA, as commonly assumed, but at the end of Late Minoan IB, ca. 1450 BC. If correct, it follows that the eruption had a huge impact on Minoan society. From a position of supremacy in the Aegean waters and along the maritime routes to the Levant and Egypt before the eruption owing to its fleet, Crete became the prey of adjacent powers after the eruption and was immediately annexed by the empire of Assuwa or Arzawa from western Turkey and the Mycenaean Greeks from the Greek mainland.
Abstract. One of the most controversial subjects in Mediterranean pre- and protohistory is the dating of the eruption of the volcano on the island of Santorini (ancient Thera). Although adherents of the traditional method of dating and those of the so-called scientific method of dating seem to reach common ground and assign the eruption to ca. 1600-1550 BC, such a date is at odds with the evidence from the Egyptian king lists. A way out of this dilemma is provided by archaeological evidence in the form of tephra found in destruction layers of archaeological sites on Crete. This tephra points to a dating of the Santorini eruption not during Late Minoan IA, as commonly assumed, but at the end of Late Minoan IB, ca. 1450 BC. If correct, it follows that the eruption had a huge impact on Minoan society. From a position of supremacy in the Aegean waters and along the maritime routes to the Levant and Egypt before the eruption owing to its fleet, Crete became the prey of adjacent powers after the eruption and was immediately annexed by the empire of Assuwa or Arzawa from western Turkey and the Mycenaean Greeks from the Greek mainland.