Enkhelyawon
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Enkhelyawon (Mycenaean Greek: ๐๐๐๐บ, e-ke-rja-wo)[n 1] was possibly a Mycenaean king from Pylos in the 13th century BCE.
Enkhelyawon is known from Linear B records from Pylos. He was very important and owned great estates, including good farm land, a thousand grapevines and a thousand fig trees; he also had forty men serving as rowers in the fleet.[1] Because of this it is assumed that he was a king[1][2] - Mycenaean Greek: wanax; Linear B: ๐ท๐๐, wa-na-ka; later Greek: แผฮฝฮฑฮพ, anax - and that he ruled over Pylos. But as kings are only mentioned by their title in texts of Linear B, it is not possible to conclusively prove this theory.
See also
- Palace of Nestor
Notes and references
- Notes
- ^ rja stands for the *76 or ra2 Linear B sign. Enkhelyawon or Enkheljฤwลn is a possible yet uncertain reconstruction of the name. The attested forms of this word - though there are also other attested words that could possibly be variants thereof - are ๐๐๐๐บ, e-ke-rja-wo (thought to be the nominative case form), ๐๐๐๐บ๐, e-ke-rja-wo-no (thought to be the genitive form), and ๐๐๐๐บ๐, e-ke-rja-wo-ne (thought to be the dative form), found respectively, on the PY Un 718, PY An 610 and PY An 724 tablets.[1][2][3][4]
- References
- ^ a b c Chadwick, John (1976). The Mycenaean World. Cambridge University Press. pp. 71โ72. ISBN 0521210771. At Google Books.
- ^ a b Best, Jan (2010). "The Language of Linear A". In Best, Jan; Woudhuizen, Fred (eds.). Lost Languages from the Mediterranean. E.J. Brill. p. 13. ISBN 978-9004089341. At Google Books.
- ^ Raymoure, K.A. "e-ke-ra2-wo". Minoan Linear A & Mycenaean Linear B. Deaditerranean. Archived from the original on 2017-02-25. Retrieved 2014-03-21.
- ^ "PY 718 Un (24)". "PY 610 An + frr.: 9 + frr.: 7 + fr. [+] 1151 (1)". "PY 724 An + frr.: 3 (1)". DฤMOS: Database of Mycenaean at Oslo. University of Oslo.
Sources
- Schofield, Louise (2009). Mykene. Geschichte und Mythos (in German). Mainz am Rhein: Verlag Philipp von Zabern. p. 120. ISBN 978-3-8053-3943-8.