THE MACRO-COMPARATIVE JOURNAL
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Thematic
issue No. 2
December
2012
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CONTENTS
EDITORIAL NEWS
The Thematic Issue No.
2 of The Macro-Comparative Journal is
dedicated to the lexical and cultural interactions of the languages of Ancient
Anatolia with Greece and Egypt.
ARTICLES
The theonym RA in Carian
inscriptions in Abydos
Arnaud Fournet
Abstract: The paper examines a number of Carian
inscriptions found in the Temple of Abydos. It is shown that they contain the
theonym RA, a feature that has been overlooked so far and has some bearing on
the issue of deciphering and reading Carian.
Revisiting Keftiu material written
in Egyptian hieroglyphs
Arnaud Fournet
Abstract: The paper examines the lexical
material belonging to the language that ancient Egyptians called
<Ka-f-ti-u> *[kaftiu]. There remain one inscription in the London Medical
Papyrus and a set of Egyptian school exercises supposedly designed to write Kafti words. The paper proposes to
interpret Kafti as a Hurrian dialect.
The alleged location, the testimonies in Egyptian hieroglyphs, the etymology of
Kafti, the depiction of clothes,
shoes and hairdress, all agree with the Hurrian connection of Kafti. The location of Kafti in Crete is mostly pegged on the
phonetic similarity of Kafti with Caphtor. This equation is quite
certainly erroneous. Kafti is preferably
located around Cilicia.
Ἐνυάλιος
ἀνδρεϊϕοντης,
Poetical code-switching between Hurrian and Greek
Arnaud Fournet
Abstract: The paper first examines the
occurrences of the theonym Ἐνυάλιος in Homer's
Iliad, focusing on the formula Ἐνυάλιος ἀνδρεϊϕόντης
‘the manslaying god Enualios’.
It has already been noticed that some parts of Hesiod's Theogony are highly reminiscent of Hurrian mythology. The paper
goes one step further and proposes to etymologize the theonym Enu[w]alios itself as a Hurrian compound
of the name eni ‘god’
with the verb uw- ‘to kill,
slay’, which both exist in Hurrian. Two other compound theonyms En-hazizi and En-umašši show the same structure as Enuwalios.