A Primer on Ugaritic: Language, Culture, and Literature - enenuru

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Ugaritic <strong>Primer</strong>
3.9.2 Transcription and Notes (KTU 2.38)
2.38:1. l.mlk.}ugrt
2.38:2. }ah˙y.rgm
2.38:3. thm.mlk.sr.ah˙k
2.38:4. ysûlm.lk.}ilm
2.38:5. tgérk.tsûlmk
2.38:6. hnny.{mn
2.38:7. sûlm.tmny
2.38:8. {mk.mnm.sûlm
2.38:9. rgm.ttb 45
2.38:10. }anykn 46 .dt
2.38:11. l}ikt.msrm
2.38:12. hndt.b.sr 47
2.38:13. mtt.by
2.38:14. gsûm.}adr
2.38:15. nsûkh¸ 48 .w
2.38:16. rb.tmtt 49
2.38:17. lqh¸.kl.dr{ 50
2.38:18. bdnhm 51 .w.}ank
2.38:19. kl.dr{hm
2.38:20. kl.npsû
2.38:21. klklhm.bd
2.38:22. rb.tmtt.lqh¸t
45 SÁ impv. from twb.
46 }nykn < /*}anayuka(n)/. There is no explanation for the use of the n in
Ugaritic.
47 A verbless sentence; i.e., “this one was in Tyre.”
48 nsûkh¸ /*nasûkah¸u/ is an N participle, vocalized on the basis of Amarna glosses.
49 /rabu taœmtuœti/, “the Officer of Deeps” (?). This is unclear. tmtt could be a
lesser god in charge of incidents involving death. Rab is regularly used in titles
in Akkadian (cf. CAD, s.v. rabû).
50 Perhaps this is an idiom “all hands [literally, “arms”] on deck.” More likely
/diraœ{a/ refers to the grain shipments that traversed the Mediterranean coast
between Egypt and the Hittite realms.
51 This is uncertain; perhaps *b +dnt + m is from Akkadian dannatu “distress,
peril”; thus, it indicates all the personnel who were in their distress.