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2(1). f(y)z(a) (Abkh. ṗyza)- "chief". The ethnographer S. D. Inal-Ipa writes: «...in collective expeditions the Abkhazian, acting as soldiers, followed their princes or their champions. They were called *(a)ṗyza* In Lower Eshera there is a burial field of the IVth century B.C. excavated in 1968. The actual appropriateness of the name *ṗyza* in the inscription is confirmed by the remains of a well equipped representative of the local elite. The syllable *Ф* was not met before. It presents the same graphic variant of the syllable *P1*. As for its shape, *Ф* it is not a comb like *P1*, but а rake with a handle with three drooping teeth on the left. 1(2). There is *-b*. The Abkhazian type of copula verb in static forms. In the inscription the syllable *b1* is presented in the lemma over the syllable *z1*. After the word *fyza-b(=ṗyza-b)* a word partition is traced in the form of a straight vertical bar. The word partition had been found in Ashuy inscriptions, but in the form of a shorter bar.
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