Diether Schürr
Biographic Data
| ID | 5644510 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Diether Schürr |
| GIVEN NAMES | Diether |
| FAMILY NAME | Schürr |
| SIGNATURE | SCHURR D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Klinikum Hanau |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7277-0053 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 29 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 29 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Zu lykisch isbazijẽ ‘(Toten-)Liege’
Zu urindogermanisch sū- und einem Toponym in Lykien
The Proto-Indo-Europeans knew the wild and probably also the domesticated pig. The PIE word *sū- for this animal is widely attested, but not in the Anatolian languages. Instead, there is another word mūtamūti- in Luwian, and the Lycian personal name Medemudi is probably derived from it. However, the PIE word may explain the toponym Σοασ/α/ or Συεσσα in Lycia, as *Suwesi in the Lycian poetical language
Ein pathologischer Betrüger
Ich versuche, einen Eindruck von der dunklen Seite des Archäologen James Mellaart zu vermitteln, indem ich seine Erfindungen von 1954 bis 1999 und eine Wiederaufnahme nach seinem Tod verfolge. Sie scheinen von dem Wunsch motiviert zu sein, seine Theorien zu untermauern, entfernten sich aber weit vom Bereich der Wahrhaftigkeit und führten zum Verlust jeglicher Vertrauenswürdigkeit. Er mag ein Opfer seiner Obsessionen gewesen sein, aber seine zahlr…
Palatalisierung von CA nördlich des Brenners
Ludwig Staub (1854) introduced the assumption that the Western Romance palatalization of CA is also attested in some Germanized toponyms north of the Brenner Pass. Karl Finsterwalder initially took up this idea, and his successors have since then retained it. The assumption is based on double etymologies, especially the explanation of some toponyms coming from Latin caverna. Similarly, the name of the mountain meadow Schifernei, together with Tsc…
Die Namen auf dem Silberblech von Vrh gradu
In the little group of Venetic inscriptions in Western Slovenia the letter T should be read /d/ as in other Venetic inscriptions. A peculiarity of some of these inscriptions is an inverse . Hence, the inscription of Vrh gradu should be read “Woduros Wollknos”. The first name could be explained with reference to Indo-European *wodr̥ ‘water’. The second name might be formed not with the Celtic suffix -(i)knos, but with -nos, and could then be expla…
Runisch lguskaþi mit Personen- statt Bildbezug
The interpretation of lguskaþi as ‘Hirschschädigung’, i.e. a kind of comment on the sketch of a large dog or wolf attacking a stag, is improbable for several reasons. More probable is the interpretation as the name of a person, whether the maker of the footstool or its owner. The emendation of lgu- to lagu- is better than to * algi- ‘elk’, which involves a postulated change of * -i- > -u- . The second element -skaþi does not have to go back to an…
Max Gander
Widder- und pferdeförmige Grabsteine
Tombstones in the shape of rams or horses are a widely distributed phenomen mainly in the East of Turkey and the adjacent states, used by people of differing religious and ethnic affiliation: by Christians, Shiites, Alevites, and Yazidis but probably not Sunnis, by Georgians, Armenians, Aramaeans, Kurds, Zazas, possibly the Talysh, non-Ottomanian Turks or Türkmens, perhaps also Ottomanian Turks. The extremes are a group of rams in central Anatoli…
More Water at Moatra
While evidence of ancient place names is a crucial element for our understanding of the historical landscape, many of those toponyms, other than those of major urban centres, have often disappeared in the course of history. The traditional localization of one such ancient toponym, Moatra in the territory of Sagalassos, at the present-day village of Bereket in the central district of Burdur Province (SW Türkiye) has recently been questioned. Alleg…
Zur ostgermanischen Inschrift der Lanzenspitze von Kowel (Ukraine)
The East Germanic inscription on the spearhead of Kowel is proposed to read tilaries , with early forms of the runes t and e . Then this is the earliest attestation of the loan of the Latin suffix -ārius by a Germanic language and an attestation of an East Germanic form older than the Biblical Gothic -areis . As a designation for a spear this is more plausible than a second part -rids or -riþs ‘rider’. The closed e of Kowel looks like an archaic …
Wolfdietrichs Wurm
The MHG epic ‘Wolfdietrich’ and the ON ‘Thidreks saga’ contain an unlucky fight against a dragon: Wolfdietrich or Thidrek af Bern helps a lion against it, but the dragon takes the lion in its mouth and the knight in its tail and drags them to its cave. This very characteristic situation was depicted in medieval church art, at least three times: 1. on floor-tiles found in the monastery of Pilis (Hungary), including the sword broken into three piec…
Königliche Rekorde von Naram-Sin bis Erbbina
Boasting with so and so many warlike deeds in one year is first attested in inscriptions of Naram-Sin, inaugurating a mainly Mesopotamian tradition, but recurring in the trilingual inscriptions of Darius I at Bisitun too. In an Old Hittite tale there is some sort of a female counterpart: The queen of Kaniš gives birth to 30 sons in one year. Much later an Urartian king uses the warlike topos, and the more or less contemporary new Late Luwian insc…
Ist der epichorische Name der Stadt Side entziffert
Seit 1950 wird angenommen, daß der einheimische Name der pamphylischen Stadt Side ihrem griechischen entspricht, was zu dem Ansatz entsprechender Lautwerte und zuletzt auch dem Postulat eines luwischen Ethnikonsuffixes und einer luwischen Endung führte. All das ist fragwürdig und hinderlich für einen echten Fortschritt in der Bestimmung der Lautwerte des sidetischen Alphabets und des Charakters der sidetischen Sprache. Vorläufig ist nur wahrschei…
Methodisches zur Erschließung der lykischen Gedichte
Die "etymologische Methode" ist kein zuverlässiges Instrument zum Verständnis der lykischen Gedichte, selbst wenn man sich auf den Vergleich mit anderen anatolischen Sprachen beschränkt. Der Anspruch, sie zu übersetzen, kann nur phantasievolle Ergebnisse hervorbringen, wie bereits in der Vergangenheit gezeigt wurde. Eine bescheidenere Methode versucht, innerlykische Etymologien (oder einfach Verbindungen mit anderen Wörtern) zu verwenden, einschl…
Chñtabura und Chinaχa oder lykisches Dynasten-Gedenken
On his sarcophagus in Limyra, Khñtabura is shown standing naked between two old seated men designated as Araχa and Khinaχa. The second one could be the dynast Khinaχa, who minted coins at Limyra much earlier, because there are other cases of cultivating the memory of dynasts in inscriptions, also Greek inscriptions in Hellenistic times, and even of honouring the pillar tombs of dynasts in Byzantine times. Here Khinaχa is probably commemorated as …
Schälchenkreise in Xanthos
Sciendo provides publishing services and solutions to academic and professional organizations and individual authors. We publish journals, books, conference proceedings and a variety of other publications
Trqqas asati
Eine mesopotamische Formel wurde von den Hethiterkönigen übernommen und für kurze Zeit auch bildlich auf Siegeln und in einem Felsrelief dargestellt. Sie wurde auch in das Reichsluwische der hieroglyphischen Königsinschriften übersetzt und taucht so in den spätluwischen Inschriften lange nach dem Ende des Hethiterreiches wieder auf, in vielfältiger Verwendung. Außerdem wurde sie auch zur Bildung von Personennamen benutzt, die sich von Kilikien we…
Zagabas and the Use of Lycian B
The legend on a Lycian coin (around 450 BC) is read Zagabas instead of Zagabah, only attested later as the genitive of a toponym. This will be the genitive form characteristic of Lycian B, which is otherwise only attested in poems, and thus the first clear evidence of use other than in verse
Die Mär vom griechischen und/oder wölfischen Ursprung von Lykiern, Lykaonen, Lukkā und Luwija
The Greek name for the Trm͂mili people in Asia Minor was Λύκιοι, naturally explained by some Greek authors as from λύκος, ‘wolf’, either directly or via a personal name. This has inspired modern explanations by means of the same word. The first was that the Hittite country of Luwija was, just like Lycia, named after wolves, i.e. from a word for ‘wolf’ cognate with the Greek word, whereas the Akkadian name-form Lukku of another country have been i…
Ein Lesevorschlag zur lykischen Inschrift TL 106
It is proposed that the inscription be segmented at a different point to the usual, namely, immediately before ñneti. The content of the second curse is then that the perpetrator shall be defiled commensurately with the defilement of the tomb, i.e., a singular case of a talion not attested elsewhere in Lycian inscriptions, nor in Greek inscriptions from Lycia. A request to bury "my" wife and "my" children follows as an additional, third part to t…
Owe Mvter
First, the narrator’s comments in Wolfram von Eschenbach’s ‘Parzival’ with an ironic reference to the narrator himself and/or the coupling of the fictitious locations to his native landscape are compiled and explained, within which the mention of Wildenberc belongs, as a place of writing and recitation, and to which the Grail Castle Munsalvæsche also owes its name. Then the identification with the castle near Amorbach and the question of whether …
Ergänzungen in den lykisch-griechischen Fragmenten TL 45 und TL 45B
The beginning of the Lycian text TL 45 is restored with the usual topicalization of the direct object, but with the verb not appearing until line 3. The content of the sentence does not corre-spond to the first sentence of the Greek version. In this version, the title and the names of the archonts Hieron and Apollodotos, known from the contemporary trilingual Letöon inscrip-tion (N 320), are restored in lines 6-7. In lines 11-12 a Greek version o…
Eine lykische Opferformel
The tomb inscription TL 150 is terminated by a sacrifice formula. The addressee of the sacrifice seems to be the tomb builder itself, but ‚to sacrifice yearly‘ is probably dependent from zasãni, which should be a finite verb with the tomb builder as the indirect object. Xadrñna designates perhaps, what has to be sacrificed, but it may be instead a designation of the responsible person or even of the recipient(s) of the sacrifice. In each case the…
Die lykische ?ni mahanahi
The Lycian designation ẽni mahanahi has no Bronze Age Luwian predecessor, contrary to what is often supposed: This belief is based upon a misunderstanding. There is also no connection between this goddess and the Old Phrygian goddess called matar (kubileya), becoming later the Greek Kybele and the Roman Magna Mater, and the habit of speaking of an ‘Anatolian’ mother goddess is based on a false precondition, because Anatolia (or Asia Minor) was ne…
Ist lykisch stta - ein Erb- oder ein Lehnwort
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Zur Bestimmung Der Lautwerte Des Karischen Alphabets 1971-1991
Nymphen Von Phellos
L'A. examine la signification et l'etymologie du mot wedri apparaissant dans une inscription gravee sur une sepulture greco-lycienne qui se termine par une formule de malediction. Il rapproche tout d'abord ce mot d'un nom de lieu, puis le relie aux deesses de l'eau, et plus particulierement aux nymphes de Phellos
Lykisch und karisch un
Frühe Götter“ in Lykien
Ist lykisch stta - ein Erb- oder ein Lehnwort
Die lykische ?ni mahanahi
The Lycian designation ẽni mahanahi has no Bronze Age Luwian predecessor, contrary to what is often supposed: This belief is based upon a misunderstanding. There is also no connection between this goddess and the Old Phrygian goddess called matar (kubileya), becoming later the Greek Kybele and the Roman Magna Mater, and the habit of speaking of an ‘Anatolian’ mother goddess is based on a false precondition, because Anatolia (or Asia Minor) was ne…
Ergänzungen in den lykisch-griechischen Fragmenten TL 45 und TL 45B
The beginning of the Lycian text TL 45 is restored with the usual topicalization of the direct object, but with the verb not appearing until line 3. The content of the sentence does not corre-spond to the first sentence of the Greek version. In this version, the title and the names of the archonts Hieron and Apollodotos, known from the contemporary trilingual Letöon inscrip-tion (N 320), are restored in lines 6-7. In lines 11-12 a Greek version o…
Eine lykische Opferformel
The tomb inscription TL 150 is terminated by a sacrifice formula. The addressee of the sacrifice seems to be the tomb builder itself, but ‚to sacrifice yearly‘ is probably dependent from zasãni, which should be a finite verb with the tomb builder as the indirect object. Xadrñna designates perhaps, what has to be sacrificed, but it may be instead a designation of the responsible person or even of the recipient(s) of the sacrifice. In each case the…
Schälchenkreise in Xanthos
Sciendo provides publishing services and solutions to academic and professional organizations and individual authors. We publish journals, books, conference proceedings and a variety of other publications
Trqqas asati
Eine mesopotamische Formel wurde von den Hethiterkönigen übernommen und für kurze Zeit auch bildlich auf Siegeln und in einem Felsrelief dargestellt. Sie wurde auch in das Reichsluwische der hieroglyphischen Königsinschriften übersetzt und taucht so in den spätluwischen Inschriften lange nach dem Ende des Hethiterreiches wieder auf, in vielfältiger Verwendung. Außerdem wurde sie auch zur Bildung von Personennamen benutzt, die sich von Kilikien we…
Zagabas and the Use of Lycian B
The legend on a Lycian coin (around 450 BC) is read Zagabas instead of Zagabah, only attested later as the genitive of a toponym. This will be the genitive form characteristic of Lycian B, which is otherwise only attested in poems, and thus the first clear evidence of use other than in verse
Die Mär vom griechischen und/oder wölfischen Ursprung von Lykiern, Lykaonen, Lukkā und Luwija
The Greek name for the Trm͂mili people in Asia Minor was Λύκιοι, naturally explained by some Greek authors as from λύκος, ‘wolf’, either directly or via a personal name. This has inspired modern explanations by means of the same word. The first was that the Hittite country of Luwija was, just like Lycia, named after wolves, i.e. from a word for ‘wolf’ cognate with the Greek word, whereas the Akkadian name-form Lukku of another country have been i…
Ein Lesevorschlag zur lykischen Inschrift TL 106
It is proposed that the inscription be segmented at a different point to the usual, namely, immediately before ñneti. The content of the second curse is then that the perpetrator shall be defiled commensurately with the defilement of the tomb, i.e., a singular case of a talion not attested elsewhere in Lycian inscriptions, nor in Greek inscriptions from Lycia. A request to bury "my" wife and "my" children follows as an additional, third part to t…
Owe Mvter
First, the narrator’s comments in Wolfram von Eschenbach’s ‘Parzival’ with an ironic reference to the narrator himself and/or the coupling of the fictitious locations to his native landscape are compiled and explained, within which the mention of Wildenberc belongs, as a place of writing and recitation, and to which the Grail Castle Munsalvæsche also owes its name. Then the identification with the castle near Amorbach and the question of whether …
Königliche Rekorde von Naram-Sin bis Erbbina
Boasting with so and so many warlike deeds in one year is first attested in inscriptions of Naram-Sin, inaugurating a mainly Mesopotamian tradition, but recurring in the trilingual inscriptions of Darius I at Bisitun too. In an Old Hittite tale there is some sort of a female counterpart: The queen of Kaniš gives birth to 30 sons in one year. Much later an Urartian king uses the warlike topos, and the more or less contemporary new Late Luwian insc…
Ist der epichorische Name der Stadt Side entziffert
Seit 1950 wird angenommen, daß der einheimische Name der pamphylischen Stadt Side ihrem griechischen entspricht, was zu dem Ansatz entsprechender Lautwerte und zuletzt auch dem Postulat eines luwischen Ethnikonsuffixes und einer luwischen Endung führte. All das ist fragwürdig und hinderlich für einen echten Fortschritt in der Bestimmung der Lautwerte des sidetischen Alphabets und des Charakters der sidetischen Sprache. Vorläufig ist nur wahrschei…
Methodisches zur Erschließung der lykischen Gedichte
Die "etymologische Methode" ist kein zuverlässiges Instrument zum Verständnis der lykischen Gedichte, selbst wenn man sich auf den Vergleich mit anderen anatolischen Sprachen beschränkt. Der Anspruch, sie zu übersetzen, kann nur phantasievolle Ergebnisse hervorbringen, wie bereits in der Vergangenheit gezeigt wurde. Eine bescheidenere Methode versucht, innerlykische Etymologien (oder einfach Verbindungen mit anderen Wörtern) zu verwenden, einschl…
Chñtabura und Chinaχa oder lykisches Dynasten-Gedenken
On his sarcophagus in Limyra, Khñtabura is shown standing naked between two old seated men designated as Araχa and Khinaχa. The second one could be the dynast Khinaχa, who minted coins at Limyra much earlier, because there are other cases of cultivating the memory of dynasts in inscriptions, also Greek inscriptions in Hellenistic times, and even of honouring the pillar tombs of dynasts in Byzantine times. Here Khinaχa is probably commemorated as …
Widder- und pferdeförmige Grabsteine
Tombstones in the shape of rams or horses are a widely distributed phenomen mainly in the East of Turkey and the adjacent states, used by people of differing religious and ethnic affiliation: by Christians, Shiites, Alevites, and Yazidis but probably not Sunnis, by Georgians, Armenians, Aramaeans, Kurds, Zazas, possibly the Talysh, non-Ottomanian Turks or Türkmens, perhaps also Ottomanian Turks. The extremes are a group of rams in central Anatoli…
More Water at Moatra
While evidence of ancient place names is a crucial element for our understanding of the historical landscape, many of those toponyms, other than those of major urban centres, have often disappeared in the course of history. The traditional localization of one such ancient toponym, Moatra in the territory of Sagalassos, at the present-day village of Bereket in the central district of Burdur Province (SW Türkiye) has recently been questioned. Alleg…
Zur ostgermanischen Inschrift der Lanzenspitze von Kowel (Ukraine)
The East Germanic inscription on the spearhead of Kowel is proposed to read tilaries , with early forms of the runes t and e . Then this is the earliest attestation of the loan of the Latin suffix -ārius by a Germanic language and an attestation of an East Germanic form older than the Biblical Gothic -areis . As a designation for a spear this is more plausible than a second part -rids or -riþs ‘rider’. The closed e of Kowel looks like an archaic …
Wolfdietrichs Wurm
The MHG epic ‘Wolfdietrich’ and the ON ‘Thidreks saga’ contain an unlucky fight against a dragon: Wolfdietrich or Thidrek af Bern helps a lion against it, but the dragon takes the lion in its mouth and the knight in its tail and drags them to its cave. This very characteristic situation was depicted in medieval church art, at least three times: 1. on floor-tiles found in the monastery of Pilis (Hungary), including the sword broken into three piec…
Zu lykisch isbazijẽ ‘(Toten-)Liege’
Zu urindogermanisch sū- und einem Toponym in Lykien
The Proto-Indo-Europeans knew the wild and probably also the domesticated pig. The PIE word *sū- for this animal is widely attested, but not in the Anatolian languages. Instead, there is another word mūtamūti- in Luwian, and the Lycian personal name Medemudi is probably derived from it. However, the PIE word may explain the toponym Σοασ/α/ or Συεσσα in Lycia, as *Suwesi in the Lycian poetical language
Ein pathologischer Betrüger
Ich versuche, einen Eindruck von der dunklen Seite des Archäologen James Mellaart zu vermitteln, indem ich seine Erfindungen von 1954 bis 1999 und eine Wiederaufnahme nach seinem Tod verfolge. Sie scheinen von dem Wunsch motiviert zu sein, seine Theorien zu untermauern, entfernten sich aber weit vom Bereich der Wahrhaftigkeit und führten zum Verlust jeglicher Vertrauenswürdigkeit. Er mag ein Opfer seiner Obsessionen gewesen sein, aber seine zahlr…
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