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Remarks on the Lydian Inscriptions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 April 2026

E. H. Sturtevant
E. H. Sturtevant*
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Yale University
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The complete publication of the Lydian inscriptions by Buckler has been followed up almost immediately by Sayce with a suggestive article on their decipherment—an article, however, which raises more questions than it settles. The following remarks were prompted by it, but I find it necessary frequently to disagree with Sayce's conclusions. In the transliteration of the Lydian characters I shall follow Sayce, except that I shall represent the sibilants as Buckler does.

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Research Article
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Language , Volume 1 , Issue 3-Part1 , September 1925 , pp. 69 - 79
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Copyright © Linguistic Society of America 1925

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References

1 Sardis 6 Part 2 (Leyden, 1924).

2 American Journal of Philology 46. 29–51 (1925).

3 Sardis 6.1. 31–37 (1916). Compare Holgar Pedersen, Philologica 1. 48–54 (1921).

4 Usually substantives and pronominal adjectives have š, while other adjectives have s; but in No. 23.3 we have the adjective tau šaš.

5 Comptes Rendus dt l'Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres 1921. 14.

6 See Buckler and Robinson, American Journal of Archaeology 17. 359 (1913).

7 Cf. Joh. Friedrich, Die bisherigen Ergebnisse der hethitischen Sprachforschung, Festschr. f. Wilhelm Streitberg, 304–18, (Heidelberg, 1924.) G.M.B.

8 Classical Weekly 18. 171–175 (1925). There is a discussion of the matter by Heinrich Zimmern in the Streitberg Festgabe 439–441 (Leipzig, 1924).

9 Mitteilungen der Deutschen Orient-Gesellschaft 61. 26–27 (1921).

10 See my article in CW 17. 25–28, 33–36 (1923), especially page 36.

11 See G. Herbig, Kleinasiatisch-Etruskische Namengleichungen.

12 Wilamowitz, Hermes 38. 575–586 (1903); Martin Nilsson, Griechische Festen 102.

13 So Bethe, Festschrift Jakob Wackernagel 15.

14 CW 18. 118 (1925).

15 Hence Kretschmer, Einleitung in die Geschichte der Griechischen Sprache, 327, assumes that Carian is more primitive than . Sayce (p. 39) assumes the contrary development in both these cases, but he is surely wrong; his description of Id for ll as a dentalized ll is phonetically absurd, since l is a dental as well as d.

16 Einleitung 241 f. and references.

17 See Livy 39. 8–9.