Re: [tied] tomb

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