Corpus of ancient cuneiform texts discovered in Syria
The Baal Cycle, the most famous of the Ugaritic texts,[1] displayed in the Louvre
The Ugaritic texts are a corpus of ancient cuneiform texts discovered in 1928 in Ugarit (Ras Shamra) and Ras Ibn Hani in Syria, and written in Ugaritic, an otherwise unknown Northwest Semitic language. Approximately 1,500 texts and fragments have been found to date. The texts were written in the 13th and 12th centuries BC.
The most famous of the Ugarit texts are the approximately fifty epic poems; the three major literary texts are the Baal Cycle, the Legend of Keret, and the Tale of Aqhat. The other texts include 150 tablets describing the Ugaritic cult and rituals, 100 letters of correspondence, a very small number of legal texts (Akkadian is considered to have been the contemporary language of law), and hundreds of administrative or economic texts.
Unique among the Ugarit texts are the earliest known abecedaries, lists of letters in alphabetic cuneiform, where not only the canonical order of Phoenician script is evidenced, but also the traditional names for letters of the alphabet.
Other tablets found in the same location were written in other cuneiform languages (Sumerian, Hurrian and Akkadian), as well as Egyptian and Luwian hieroglyphs, and Cypro-Minoan.
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is known through the Ugaritictexts discovered by French archaeologists in 1928 at Ugarit, including several major literary texts, notably the Baal cycle...
Latakia Governorate. It was discovered by accident in 1928 with the Ugaritictexts. Its ruins are often called Ras Shamra (also Ras Shamrah) after the...
various offerings. Over two hundred names of deities are known from Ugaritictexts, though it has been argued the number of these who were an object of...
Ugaritic writing system is a Cuneiform Abjad, consonantal alphabet, with syllabic elements used from around either 1400 BCE or 1300 BCE for Ugaritic,...
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Ugaritic words 2003 p389 Jesús-Luis Cunchillos, Juan-Pablo Vita, The texts of the Ugaritic data bank 2003 p82 Marvin H. Pope El in the Ugaritictexts...
example in Mari, but also in Mesopotamia as far east as Eshnunna. In the Ugaritictexts, Yarikh appears both in strictly religious context, in rituals and offering...
other Ugaritictexts, the two are associated with the sun goddess. Another inscription is a sentence repeated three times in a para-mythological text, "Let...
Origins of Biblical Monotheism: Israel's Polytheistic Background and the UgariticTexts, Oxford University Press (2001) Othmar Keel, Christoph Uehlinger, Gods...
conventionally referred to as Horon (Ugaritic: 𐎈𐎗𐎐, ḥrn; Ḥôrānu or Ḥōrān) in scholarship. In the Ugaritictexts, Hauron appears as a deity associated...
especially with dew and light rain. She is sparsely attested in known Ugaritictexts, and does not appear in offering lists, though it is nonetheless assumed...
according to his 70 sons (the 70 sons of Ēl being mentioned in the Ugaritictexts), each of these sons to be the tutelary deity over one of the 70 nations...
Danel (/ˈdeɪnəl/, Ugaritic: 𐎄𐎐𐎛𐎍 DNỈL, "El is judge"), father of Aqhat, was a culture hero who appears in an incomplete Ugaritictext of the fourteenth...
y’bdr" might also be a plausible option. It occurs twelve times in known Ugaritictexts. The meaning of the term y’bdr is unknown. It has been suggested that...
The Baal Cycle is a Ugaritictext (c. 1500–1300 BCE) about the Canaanite god Baʿal (lit. "Owner", "Lord"), a storm god associated with fertility. The...
Semitic and Arabian peoples. Both names appear in alternate verses in Ugaritictexts. (In the same way, the name of the goddess Asherah appears in alternate...
otherwise almost exclusively from Ugaritictexts. While she is well attested in this text corpus, her role in Ugaritic religion remains uncertain. It has...
elohim, translated "sons of the Gods", has an exact parallel in Ugaritic and Phoenician texts, referring to the council of the gods. Elohim occupy the seventh...
attested in texts from Mari, Ugarit and Emar. There is no agreement among translators over whether they had individual names in Ugaritic tradition. They...
his might, he is proclaimed ʾadn or "lord" of the gods.: 532 In some Ugaritictexts the term ʾadn ʾilm rbm meaning "the Lord of the Great Gods" is used...
how Nikkal is attested in both Ugaritic and Hurrian texts. He or his plural form occurs in the beginning of such texts, before El, Kumarbi and Teshub...
further independent deity in texts from Ugarit. Due to lack of clear references to Qetesh as a distinct deity in Ugaritic and other Syro-Palestinian sources...
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