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

Legal Texts 107
9. /bitta {abdimalki }attata[hu]/ the daughter of Abdimalki, his
wife.
Person #6.
The PN {bdmlk is a “perfect” Semitic name. Compare with the
Hebrew PN JKRlRm_dRbRo. The accusative forms /bitta/ and /}attata[hu]/
are appropriate because “daughter” and the appositional term
“wife” are objects of the verb.
10. /wa-sanata [bi]/ and “Sanata” [in the]
The word snt is unclear. Perhaps it is a verb indicating “to do
something in/to Ugarit”?
11. /beœta }ugarˆäta/ house of Ugarit.
12. /wa-padayahu[muœ]/ And Iwrikalli ransomed them
13. /}iwirkallu mi}ta/ for 100
This line provides an occasion to consider the use of numbers at
Ugarit. It appears that the Ugaritic numbers could be construed in
at least two different ways: either bound to a following noun or in
apposition to the delimited word. In the phrase m}it ksp, wecannot
tell for sure. We can determine the precise relationship of the
number and the noun in situations when the defined noun ends
with an } and, therefore, provides an indication of case vowel. For
example, the form m}it }iqn}i would indicate a bound formation
/m}itu }iqni}i/, “100 of lapis lazuli,” since the final /i/ reveals the
genitive case. But tltm }iqn}u shows apposition /talaœtuœma }iqni}u/
“30 lapis lazuli,” since the final vowel is nominative.
14. /kaspa biya[di]/ silver to
15. /be}iraœtˆäyˆäma/ the Be}irutians.
In birtym the yod is the gentilic. The exact location of Beiratu is
unknown.