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

5.3.2 Transcription (KTU 3.9)
Obverse
1. mrzh
2. dqny
3. sûmmn
4. b.btw
5. wsût.}ibsn
6. lkm.km.}ag
7. rsûkm.
8. b.bty
9. ksph˙msûm
10. }is{
Reverse
1. wsûm.mn
2. rb.}al.ydd
3. mt.mrzh
4. wyrgm.l
5. sûmmn.tn.
6. ksp.tql d{mnk
7. tqlm.ys{
8. yph.}ih˙rsûp
9. bn.}udrnn
10. w.{bdn
11. bn.sgld
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5.3.3 Commentary and Notes (KTU 3.9)
The twenty-one lines of crudely-made signs on KTU 3.9 in Figures
5.2 and 5.3 tell of the founding and rules of SÁamuœmaœnu’s mrzh. 4
Modern scholars do not understand the mrzh well. Many scholars
4 Not surprisingly, this text has generated an extensive bibliography. See
Friedman, Maarav 2 (1979-80), 187–206; Smith, Ugaritic Baal Cycle,
1:140–44; J. McLaughlin, The Marzah in the Prophetic Literature: References
and Allusions in Light of the Extra-biblical Evidence (SVT, 86; Leiden, 2001).