Re: [tied] tomb

From: John
Message: 30944
Date: 2004-02-11

Similar towers seem to have been built in Scotland in Romano-British
times, where they are called "brochs". It seems in this case they
to protect local communities from slave traders.

I wonder whether we don't have another tholoi/tumulus/kurgan/barrow
nomenclature problem here.

Regards

John

> Miguel Carrasquer wrote:
> > Allegedly from "Pelasgian" (pre-Greek) *dhm.bhos, like
púrgos "tower" from
> > *bhr.ghos.
>
> The latter makes me recollect an article by I.Dyakonoff and
S.Sstarostin
> "Hurrian-Urartian and East-Caucasian Languages" where they wrote:
> ------
> HU *borg-: Urart. b/pu/org-ana "fortress, tower" < P-NEC *porqwV
(possibly
> *b-, *w-, *-G-): Tses. beR "cattle-shed", Akhv. borRo, Kar.
berwa "shed" (it
> must be taken into account that the Caucasians kept livestock on
the
> ground-flor of towers); cf. Abkh. a-ba /<baRa/ "fortress", Kabard.
baq
> "shed"
> ------
>
> Indeed, the towers played a very special role in life and culture
of the
> North East Caucasian people (both Nakh and Dagestanian) - actually
it was
> the general and universal type of house which was used as a home, a
> cattle-shed, a fortress, a watch tower.
> Other cultures where towers played an iportant and special role
are:
> - Urartu
> - Etruria
> - some West Mediterranean cultures of the Middle / Late Bronze Age
> ('nuraghe' in Sardinia, 'torre' in Corsica, 'talayot' in Balear
Isl.) which
> belong to the megalithic tradition.
>
> Alexander