On Old Persian tačara- and its Elusive Meaning
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Date Issued
2019
Type
bookPart
Start Page
109
End Page
126
ISBN
978-3-447-11094-5
Abstract
Old Persian tačara- (also dačara-) is one of the palatial terms occurring in the Achaemenid royal inscriptions in Persepolis and Susa. It is generally translated as “palace”, sometimes with an emphasis on an alleged residential character (“private/residential palace”), and considered as semantically equivalent to hadiš-, another OP word interpreted as “palace”. However, full semantic implications of this word are still far from being grasped, despite great efforts by scholars. Its origin is also controversial. In this paper the author (a) examines in depth all the passages where OP tačara- occurs, also taking into account the Elamite and Babylonian versions of the multilingual texts and the Elamite and Babylonian words paralleling it, (b) reviews the different hypotheses put forward by scholars on t/dačara- and (c) advances some remarks on possible cognates in Modern Iranian languages. Unfortunately, these possible cognates do not help us fully understand the referential value of t/dačara, which remains elusive, as well as its relationship with other palatial terms.
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