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Lemnian language#Lemnos Stele
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Writing system
The Lemnian inscriptions are in Western Greek alphabet, also called "red alphabet". The red type is found in most parts of central and northern mainland Greece (Thessaly, Boeotia and most of the Peloponnese), as well as the island of Euboea, and in colonies associated with these places, including most colonies in Italy.BOOK, Roger D., Woodard, Phoinikeia grammata: an alphabet for the Greek language, A companion to the ancient Greek language,weblink limited, Egbert J., Bakker, Oxford, 26-46, Blackwell, 2010, 9781405153263, The alphabet used for Lemnian inscriptions is similar to an archaic variant used to write the Etruscan language in southern Etruria.BOOK, Marchesini, Simona, 2009, Le lingue frammentarie dell'Italia antica, 1st, it, Hoepli, Milan, 105â106,Classification
(File:Common Tyrrhenic model.svg|thumb|Tyrrhenian language family tree as proposed by de Simone and Marchesini (2013)Carlo de Simone, Simona Marchesini (Eds), La lamina di Demlfeld [= Mediterranea. Quaderni annuali dell'Istituto di Studi sulle Civiltà italiche e del Mediterraneo antico del Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche. Supplemento 8], Pisa â Roma: 2013.)A relationship between Lemnian, Raetic and Etruscan, as a Tyrsenian language family, has been proposed by German linguist Helmut Rix due to close connections in vocabulary and grammar.{{Sfn|Rix|1998}} For example,- Both Etruscan and Lemnian share two unique dative cases, type-I -si and type-II -ale, shown both on the Lemnos Stele (, 'for Hulaie', , 'for the Phocaean') and in inscriptions written in Etruscan (, 'to Aule', on the Cippus Perusinus; as well as the inscription , meaning 'I was blessed for Laris Velchaina');{{sfn|Wallace|2018}}
- A few lexical correspondences have been noted, such as Lemnian ('year') and Etruscan (genitive case); or Lemnian ('sixty') and Etruscan (genitive case), both sharing the same internal structure "number + decade suffix + inflectional ending" (Lemnian: Å¡i + alÏvi + -s, Etruscan: Å¡e + alÏl + s);{{sfn|Wallace|2018}}
- They also share the genitive in -s and a simple past tense in -a-i (Etruscan -{{angbr|e}} as in 'was' (
Vowels
Like Etruscan, the Lemnian language appears to have had a four-vowel system, consisting of "i", "e", "a" and "o". Other languages in the neighbourhood of the Lemnian area, namely Hittite and Akkadian, had similar four-vowel systems, suggesting early areal influence.Lemnos Stele
(File:Stele von Lemnos 02.jpg|thumb|right|Lemnos stele)The stele, also known as the stele of Kaminia, was found built into a church wall in Kaminia and is now at the National Archaeological Museum of Athens. The 6th century date is based on the fact that in 510 BC the Athenian Miltiades invaded Lemnos and hellenized it.Herodotus, 6.136-140 The stele bears a low-relief bust of a man and is inscribed in an alphabet similar to the western ("Chalcidian") Greek alphabet. The inscription is in Boustrophedon style, and has been transliterated but had not been successfully translated until serious linguistic analysis based on comparisons with Etruscan, combined with breakthroughs in Etruscan's own translation started to yield fruit.The inscription consists of 198 characters forming 33 to 40 words, word separation sometimes indicated with one to three dots. The text on the front consists of three parts, two written vertically (1; 6-7) and one horizontally (2-5). Comprehensible is the phrase ('lived forty' years, B.3), reminiscent of Etruscan ('and forty-five years'), seeming to refer to the person to whom this funerary monument was dedicated, ('to Holaie PhokiaÅ¡' B.1), who appeared to have been an official called maras at some point ('and was a maras one year'B3), compare Etruscan "and" (postposition), and . Wallace, Rex E. (2018), "Lemnian language", Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Classics, Oxford University Press Oddly, this text also contains a word that seems to be connected to Etruscan "nephew/uncle"; but this is a fairly clear borrowing from Latin nepot-, suggesting that the speakers of this language migrated at some point from the Italic peninsula (or independently borrowed this Indo-European word from somewhere else).Eichner, Heiner (2012) "Neues zur Sprache der Stele von Lemnos (Erster Teil)" Gorgias Press. Voprosy âzykovogo rodstva Vol.7 (1), p.9-32G.Kleinschmidt in 1893 proposed such translation of expression haralio eptesio - king ÎÏιÏιδημι. It is a high probability that here king/tyrant of Athens Hippias was mentioned. Tyrand Hippias died in Lemnos in 490 BC.BOOK, Kleinschmidt, G.,weblink Zwei lemnische Inschriften: Ãbersetzt und erklärt von G. Kleinschmidt. Separatabdruck aus Heft III der Zeitschrift des Insterburger Alterthumsvereins, 1893, C. R. Wilhelmi, de, Transcription:
front:
A.1. ::A.2. ::A.3. ::A.4. ::A.5. ::A.6. ::A.7. :side:
B.1. ::B.2. ::B.3.
Hephaistia inscription
Another Lemnian inscription was found during excavations at Hephaistia on the island of Lemnos in 2009.Carlo de Simone, La Nuova Iscrizione âTirsenicaâ di Lemnos (Efestia, teatro): considerazioni generali, Rasenna: Journal of the Center for Etruscan Studies: Vol. 3: Iss. 1, Article 1, 2011. (Italian) The inscription consists of 26 letters arranged in two lines of boustrophedonic script.Transcription:
upper line (left to right):
:lower line (right to left):
See also
Notes
{{Reflist}}References
- BOOK, Agostiniani, Luciano, Le origini degli Etruschi : storia, archeologia, antropologia, L'Erma di Bretschneider, 2012, 978-88-913-0059-1, Bellelli, Vincenzo, Sulla grafia e la lingua delle iscrizioni anelleniche di Lemnos,
- JOURNAL, Beschi, Luigi, 2000, Cabirio di Lemno: testamonianze litterarie ed epigrafiche, Annuario della Scuola Archeologica di Atene e delle Missioni Italiane in Oriente, 74â75, 7â192,
- BOOK, Bonfante, Larissa, Etruscan, 1990, Berkeley and Los Angeles, University of California Press, 0-520-07118-2,
- Eichner, Heiner (2012) "Neues zur Sprache der Stele von Lemnos (Erster Teil)" Gorgias Press. Voprosy âzykovogo rodstva Vol.7 (1), p.9-32
- Eichner, Heiner (2013) "Neues zur Sprache der Stele von Lemnos (Zweiter Teil)" Gorgias Press. Voprosy âzykovogo rodstva Vol.10 (1), p.1-42.
- BOOK, Ficuciello, Lucia, Lemnos. Cultura, storia, archeologia, topografia di un'isola del nord-Egeo, Athens: Scuola Archeologica Italiana di Atene, 2013, 978-960-9559-03-4,
- BOOK, Rix, Helmut, 1998, Rätisch und Etruskisch, de, Rhaetian & Etruscan, Innsbrucker Beiträge zur Sprachwissenschaft: Institut für Sprachwissenschaft der Universität Innsbruck, Vorträge und kleinere Schriften, 68, Innsbruck,
- JOURNAL, Stefan, Schumacher, 1998, de, Sprachliche Gemeinsamkeiten zwischen Rätisch und Etruskisch, Der Schlern, 72, 90â114,
- NEWS, de Simone, Carlo, 2009, La nuova iscrizione tirsenica di Efestia, Tripodes, 11, 3â58,
- BOOK, Steinbauer, Dieter H., Neues Handbuch des Etruskischen, 1999, Scripta Mercaturae Verlag, St. Katharinen,
- {{Citation|last=Wallace|first=Rex E.|title=Lemnian language|date=2018|encyclopedia=Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Classics|publisher=Oxford University Press|language=en|doi=10.1093/acrefore/9780199381135.013.8222|isbn=978-0-19-938113-5}}
External links
- weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20070705203809weblink">Development of the Etruscan Alphabet
- A Gloss of the Lemnian Inscription
- New Lemnian Inscription at R. Wallace' Rasenna blog
- Etruscan Grammar
- weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20050330053810weblink">The Etruscan Texts Project (ETP)
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