I found this incongruous --the idea that Hieroglyphic
Hittite script was used to write Scythian.
1 --I thought the hieroglyphic script was Luwian
2 --How would the Hittite have come in contact with
Scythians?
3 --What is the date for this?
"Scythian Language" Wikipedia
Inscriptions
Some scholars ascribe certain inscribed objects found
in the Carpathian Basin and in Central Asia to the
Scythians, but the interpretation of these
inscriptions remains disputed (given that nobody has
definitively identified the alphabet or translated the
content).
An inscription from Saqqez written in the Hieroglyphic
Hittite script may represent Scythian: [11]
Transliteration: pa-tì-na-sa-nà tà-pá
wa-s₆-na-m₅ XL was-was-ki XXX
ár-s-tí-m₅ ś₃-kar-kar (HA)
har-s₆-ta₅ LUGAL |
par-tì-ta₅-wa₅ ki-ś₃-a₄-á
KUR-u-pa-ti QU-wa-a₅ |
i₅-pa-ś₂-a-m₂
Transcription: patinasana tapa. vasnam: 40 vasaka 30
arzatam ikar. UTA harsta XAYAL. | Partitava xaya
DAHYUupati xva|ipayam
Translation: "Delivered dish. Value: 40 calves 30
silver iqlu.
And it was presented to the king. | King Partitavas,
the masters of the land property."
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