Goras, sanglier ou jeune lion (ou onagre) ?

Jean-Baptiste Yon (1)

1 HiSoMA - Histoire et Sources des Mondes antiques

In ancient onomastics, animal names were sometime used as personal names and are good examples of complex interrelations between languages. Such is the name Goras, found in Greek and Latin inscriptions of the Roman Near and of Iran. It can be a transcription of a Semitic animal name with the meaning "Young Lion" or of at least two Iranian animal names "Boar" or "Wild Ass". The paper focuses as well on related names to show interplay between cultures and languages.

Mots clés: Onomastics; Greek Epigraphy; Aramaic Epigraphy; Iranian language; Roman Near East

Domaines: Archéologie et Préhistoire; Etudes classiques; Histoire

Jean-Baptiste Yon. Goras, sanglier ou jeune lion (ou onagre) ?. L. Nehmé; A. Al-Jallad. To the Madbar and Back Again. Studies in the languages, archaeology, and cultures of Arabia dedicated to Michael C.A. Macdonald, Brill, pp.298-308, 2018, Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics 92, 9789004356122. ⟨10.1163/9789004357617_015⟩. ⟨halshs-01709348⟩