From ‘Foreman’ to ‘Warlord’: Royal Titles in Iron Age Western Anatolia

• Miguel Valério ^[1] ; Ilya Yakubovich ^[2]
  1. [1] Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

     Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

     Barcelona, España

     
  2. [2] Russian Academy of Sciences / University of Marburg
• Localización: Aula Orientalis: Revista de estudios del Próximo Oriente Antiguo, ISSN 0212-5730, Vol. 40, Nº. 2, 2022, págs. 345-353
• Idioma: inglés
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  • This short paper is devoted to the etymology and historical background of a triplet of Anatolian titles: Carian kλmu(δ), an epithet of god Trquδ- (Tarhunt), Lydian qaλm(λ)u- ‘king’, and Greek πάλμυς, both ‘king (βασιλεύς)’ and an epithet of Zeus. Significant progress in the study of this triplet has recently been reached by Loiacono, but we argue that there is still room for additional refinements, which concern both the formal relationship between the three lexemes under discussion and its historical implications.