Der Bedeutungswandel des akkadischen Lexems dajjālu im Kontext der Geschichte altorientalischer Imperien

• Autores: Alexander Steiner
• Localización: Historische Sprachforschung = Historical linguistics, ISSN 0935-3518, Nº. 135, 2022, págs. 264-282
• Idioma: alemán
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• Resumen

  • This paper aims to outline the semantic change of the Akkadian lexeme dayyālu throughout the history of its usage. It proves that the lexeme was semantically narrowed in three stages throughout the history of the 1st millennium BC and that the reason for this semantic change is found in the political history of the empires that conquered Mesopotamia during this period, namely the Neo-Assyrian Empire, the Achaemenid Empire and the Seleucid Empire. The semantic narrowing of this lexeme results from the decreasing significance of the institutions of the Neo-Assyrian imperial apparatus which where adapted to the local administration of the succeeding empires.