Additional Note on the Lycian Sign ◊
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https://doi.org/10.36991/PHILIA.201909Abstract
In a previous article, the author has suggested that the sign in the shape of a diamond was invented in the Lycian script for a sound that resulted from *-hih > *-hh. In this additional note he analyses the form Pttah which occurs on a recently published coin from early 4th century BC. Pttah is linked with the coin legends Zagah◊ and Zẽmuh◊, genitives of the toponyms Zagaba and Zẽmuri, and with Tlahñ and Xbahñ in the inscription of the pillar at the agora of Xanthos, ‘accusativi genitivi’ of the toponyms Tlawa and Xbane. It is therefore an analogous genitive of Pttara, Greek Patara.
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