of Middle Bronze Age Luwian inscriptions. The word tíwaná occurs frequently in the Late Bronze Age Luwian hieroglyphic inscriptions from Yalburt and Südburg. Already in the 1990s, Woudhuizen interpreted this word to represent “enemy,” which helped understanding the texts much better. This interpretation was later confirmed by Ilya Yakubovich. Piero Meriggi in 1964 read the sequence ma-sà-ka-na- as “Phrygians” in Kızıldağ 4 – and Woudhuizen was the only scholar who maintained this identification ever since. In 2019, the word “Muski” turned up in the Türkmen-Karahöyük inscription and was then interpreted to mean “Phrygian” – as it does in Kızıldağ 4. The Tuscany Dice bears the Etruscan words for the digits 1-6, where θu has been read as “one” and zal as “two”. Woudhuizen suggested swapping the numbers so that θu stands for “two” and is thus typically Indo-European. This interpretation was later adopted by John Ray. In the late 1990s, Woudhuizen suggested that Southwestern Iberian is Celtic – an idea subsequently advocated by John Koch. Selected publications Luwian hieroglyphic monumental rock and stone inscriptions from the Hittite Empire period Selected Luwian hieroglyphic texts 1 Selected Luwian hieroglyphic texts 2 Selected Luwian hieroglyphic texts, the extended version The earliest Cretan scripts The earliest Cretan scripts 2 The Phaistos Disc: A Luwian letter to Nestor The ethnicity of the Sea Peoples Ethnicity in Mediterranean Protohistory, with Wim M.J. van Binsbergen Some More Etruscan Inscriptions Two Notes on Lydian Etruscan as a colonial Luwian language, Amsterdam 2019 The Liber Linteus References External links 1959 births 2021 deaths Independent scholars 20th-century Dutch historians People from Zutphen Dutch philologists Erasmus University Rotterdam alumni Luwian language 21st-century Dutch historians