Luwische Städte- und Länderglyphen (Hieroglyphic Luwian city and country glyphs)

Diether Schürr*

Cite as Schürr, D., 2022: Luwische Städte- und Länderglyphen. Hungarian Assyriological Review 3: 49–61.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.52093/hara-202201-00028-000

Abstract

The Luwian hieroglyphic script has special signs for towns and countries. At least nine are attested in Empire Luwian inscriptions, only four of them returning in Late Luwian inscriptions. Four others are attested in Late Luwian inscriptions only but may be inherited from Empire Luwian too. In two cases, signs for gods are used as signs for towns and countries in Empire Luwian only. In one case a common Empire Luwian logogram/syllabogram is used, possibly as an abbreviation. Phonetic complements are attested in some instances, and in Late Luwian also full phonetic writings occur instead of the special signs or immediately after them (four cases).

The sign *85 should not be transcribed as GENUFLECTERE like an otherwise attested Empire Luwian sign but should revert to HALPA. The transcriptions VITIS2 or VITIS+x for an Empire Luwian sign are inappropriate, because this sign is attested solely as denoting an unidentified toponym, and is evidently more than a mere variant of VITIS. Therefore, it is proposed that it be transcribed as *160+. The Empire Luwian and the Late Luwian writing for – probably – ‘Babylon’, both with the phonetic complement -la, were transcribed with different numbers, but the earlier form is not really *292 and shares the crosshatching with the later form *475. Therefore, it is proposed that they be transcribed as *475a and b.

Keywords: Luwian hieroglyphs, Empire Luwian, Late Luwian, toponymy

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