Categorial Traces of Inalienable Possession in Pahlavī Aramaic Masks
This paper deals with a specific Aramaic heterographic stock in Middle Persian and Parthian scripts (both inscriptional and bookish), namely masks concerning kinship terms and lexemes for the body parts. After a thorough state-of-the-art report on the logographic issue in the Middle Persian scripts, a new hypothesis is put forward: the <-H> ending logograms are Aramaic "frozen" names with a mandatory 3rd sing. pron. suffix, which marked the inalienable property of the possessa.