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- Title
Third and Last: Epigraphic Notes on the Ugaritic Tablet KTU 1.19.
- Authors
YOGEV, JONATHAN; YONA, SHAMIR
- Abstract
One of the most famous stories in Ugaritic literature is the legend of Aqht that was found at Ras Shamra, Syria, during the early 1930s. Written in Ugaritic script and spread over three worn and broken tablets, this text has been thoroughly studied for the past eighty years. More than a few studies have dealt with the following questions: Is the end of the known text in the third tablet really the end of the story ? Or is there perhaps a missing tablet, or tablets, that continue the plot from the third tablet (KTU 1.19)? These questions have been answered on the basis of storyline and plot, and many believe that there must have been more contents that complete this story and that it cannot end where the text ends. In this paper we have tried to answer this question based on epigraphic evidence found in the third tablet of the Aqht legend. After carefully examining four unique features of this tablet, we conclude that KTU 1.19 is, in fact, the last one of this specific sequence. We support this evidence by an analysis of the contents, showing that there is indeed enough text to suggest a proper closure for this legend.
- Subjects
UGARITIC literature; UGARITIC poetry; TABLETS (Paleography); CONTENT analysis; SYRIAN history
- Publication
Journal of the American Oriental Society, 2016, Vol 136, Issue 4, p819
- ISSN
0003-0279
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.7817/jameroriesoci.136.4.0819