A Manual of Ugaritic

A Manual of Ugaritic......Page 1
Linguistic Studies in Ancient West Semitic......Page 2
A Manual of Ugaritic......Page 3
Contents......Page 5
Preface......Page 7
Preface to the English Edition......Page 9
Foreword, Including a Description of the Intended Audience......Page 10
1.1. The Discovery of the Port and Village......Page 13
1.2.The Identification of Ugarit......Page 14
1.3.The Decipherment of the Alphabetic Cuneiform Writing System......Page 15
1.4.Tablet Discoveries......Page 18
1.5.Abecedaries......Page 19
1.7.Bilingual and Multilingual Documents......Page 20
1.8.Ugaritic Texts......Page 21
1.9.The Archives of Ugarit and the History of the Kingdom......Page 22
1.10.1.The Borders......Page 27
1.10.2.Hydrography......Page 28
1.10.3.The Regions of the Kingdom......Page 29
1.10.4.The Landscape......Page 30
1.11.The Ugaritic Language......Page 31
2.Writing System......Page 33
3.Phonology......Page 35
3.1.The Consonants......Page 36
3.2.The Vowels......Page 37
3.5.Secondary Phenomena of the Vocalic System......Page 38
4.1.Morphological Categories......Page 40
4.1.1.1.1.Grammatical Case......Page 41
4.1.1.1.2.Grammatical Gender......Page 42
4.1.1.1.5.Grammatical State......Page 43
4.1.1.1.6.Examples of Typical Masculine and Feminine Nouns indicating the markers of case, gende.........Page 44
4.1.1.2.Nominal Forms......Page 45
4.1.1.3.Adjectives......Page 46
4.1.1.4.Numbers......Page 47
4.1.1.5.1.1.Independent Personal Pronoun......Page 50
4.1.1.5.1.2.Proclitic and Enclitic Personal Pronouns......Page 51
4.1.1.5.3.The Demonstrative Pronoun......Page 53
4.1.1.6.Adverbs......Page 54
4.1.2.2.Attested Verbal Stems......Page 55
4.1.2.3.Verbal Aspect......Page 57
4.1.2.5.Mood......Page 59
4.1.2.5.2. The Expression of Mood in the /YQTL/ Forms......Page 60
4.1.2.6.Verbal Inflection......Page 62
4.1.2.6.2.N-Stem......Page 63
4.1.2.6.4.Gt- and tD-Stems......Page 64
4.1.2.6.5. Š-Stem......Page 65
4.1.2.7.Peculiarities of Weak Roots......Page 66
4.1.2.8.Verbal Nouns and Participles......Page 68
4.1.3.1.Deictics......Page 69
4.1.3.2.Adverbs......Page 70
4.1.3.4.Prepositions......Page 71
4.1.3.5.Enclitic Particles......Page 72
5.Derivational Processes......Page 75
6.Compounding......Page 76
7.1.1.Nominal Constructions......Page 77
7.1.3.Phrases in the Administrative Texts......Page 78
7.2.Coordinate and Subordinate Clauses......Page 79
7.3.Agreement......Page 82
8.1.Common Nouns and Verbs......Page 85
8.2.1.Personal Names......Page 86
8.3.Toponomy......Page 88
9.Particularities of Poetic Texts......Page 91
Abbreviations and Sigla......Page 95
Bordreuil, P.......Page 96
Bordreuil, P., and D. Pardee......Page 97
Cunchillos, J.-L......Page 98
Dussaud, R.......Page 99
Gross, W.......Page 100
Langhe, R. de......Page 101
Nougayrol, J.......Page 102
Pardee, D.......Page 103
RS = text from Ras Shamra......Page 104
Thureau-Dangin, F.......Page 105
Verreet, E.......Page 106
Virolleaud, C.......Page 107
Yon, M., and D. Arnaud, eds.......Page 108
Hand Copies......Page 109
V. Letters......Page 169
VIII. Abecedaries......Page 170
Text 1: The Baʿlu  Myth: Baʿlu’s Battle with Yammu (RS 3.367 i)......Page 171
Text 2: The Baʿlu Myth: Baʿlu and ʿAnatu (RS 2.[014]+ iii–iv)......Page 176
Text 3: Kirta: Kirta’s Seven Wives (RS 2.[003]+ i)......Page 181
Text 4: ʾAqhatu: The Promise of a Son (RS 2.[004] i)......Page 184
Text 5: Šaḥru-wa-Šalimu: The Birth of the Gracious and Beautiful Gods (RS 2.002)......Page 189
Text 6: Ḥôrānu and the Serpents (RS 24.244)......Page 199
Text 7: The Drunkenness of ʾIlu (RS 24.258)......Page 206
Text 8: A Sacrificial Ritual for a Day and a Night (RS 1.001)......Page 210
Text 9: A Sacrificial Ritual for National Unity (RS 1.002)......Page 212
Text 10: A Sacrificial Ritual for ʾUšḫarâ Ḫulmiẓẓi (RS 24.260)......Page 218
Text 11: A Sacrificial Ritual with a Prayer (RS 24.266)......Page 219
Text 12: A Sacrificial Ritual for the Gods of the “Pantheon” (RS 24.643)......Page 222
Text 13: A Royal Funerary Ritual (RS 34.126)......Page 227
Text 16: An Ex Voto Inscription (inscribed lion-headed vase RS 25.318)......Page 230
Text 17: An Incantation against Male Sexual Dysfunction (RIH 78/20)......Page 231
Text 18: An Incantation against Snakes and Scorpions (RS 92.2014)......Page 233
Text 19: Hippiatric Prescriptions (RS 17.120)......Page 235
Text 20: Manual of Teratology (RS 24.247+)......Page 238
Text 21: A Military Situation (RS 4.475)......Page 245
Text 22: Talmiyānu and ʾAḫâtumilki to Their Lady (RS 8.315)......Page 246
Text 23: The King to the Queen-Mother (RS 11.872)......Page 247
Text 24: Talmiyanu to His Mother, Ṯarriyelli (RS 15.008)......Page 248
Text 25: The King Meets His Hittite Sovereign (RS 16.379)......Page 249
Text 26: The King of Tyre to the King of Ugarit (RS 18.031)......Page 250
Text 27: Ṯipṭibaʿlu to the King (RS 18.040)......Page 251
Text 28: Two Servants to Their Master (RS 29.093)......Page 252
Text 29: The King to the Queen-Mother in the Matter of the Amurrite Princess (RS 34.124)......Page 254
Text 30: ʾAnantenu to His Master, Ḫiḏmiratu (RS 92.2010)......Page 256
Text 31: A Double Letter: The Queen to ʾUrtēnu and ʾIlîmilku to the Same (RS 94.2406)......Page 257
Text 32: A Business Letter: The Governor to the Queen (RS 94.2479)......Page 259
Text 33: The Queen to Yarmihaddu on the Matter of a Missing Slave (RS 96.2039)......Page 260
Text 34: ʾABNY to ʾUrtēṯub/ʾUrtēnu (RS 94.2284)......Page 262
Text 35: ʾIwriḏēnu Asks to Be Named before the King (RS [Varia 4])......Page 264
Text 36: A Suzerainty Treaty between Ṯuppiluliuma and Niqmaddu (RS 11.772+)......Page 266
Text 37: A Real-Estate Transfer (RS 16.382)......Page 269
Text 38: How ʿAbdimilku May Bequeath His Property (RS 94.2168)......Page 270
Text 39: Yabninu Acquires Real Estate (RS 94.2965)......Page 272
Text 40: A marziḥu-Contract (RS [Varia 14])......Page 273
Text 41: Wine for Royal Sacrificial Rites (RS 19.015)......Page 275
Text 42: An Account Text for Yabninu (RS 15.062)......Page 277
Text 43: An Account Text for Bronzeworkers (RS 18.024)......Page 278
Text 44: A Ration List for Royal Workers (RS 19.016)......Page 281
Text 45: A Ration List with Village Names (RS 86.2213)......Page 284
Text 46: Leaders of Ten and Their Men (RS 94.2050+)......Page 285
Text 47: A Sale of Ebony-Wood (RS 94.2392+)......Page 288
Text 48: Provisions for a Month (RS 94.2600)......Page 289
Texts 49–51: Debit Accounts Owing to Muninuya......Page 290
Text 51: RIH 84/33......Page 292
Text 52: Boats to Carchemish (RIH 83/22)......Page 294
Text 55: A Double Abecedary with Place Names (RS 94.2440)......Page 296
Concordance of Text Numbers......Page 298
Glossary......Page 305