Ignacio Márquez Rowe AOAT 335
 
The Royal Deeds of Ugarit ISBN 3-934628-86-9
A Study of Ancient Near Eastern Diplomatics 336 pp.
69,- EUR
2006

I. Márquez Rowe analyses the legal transactions found at Ugarit, which are characterized by the involvement of the king, and thus enhances our knowledge of this Late Bronze Age province of cuneiform law. While the texts are predominantly written in Akkadian, some use the Ugaritic language. The Study provides the reader both with an overview of this group of texts as well as with many special examinations of various legal, socio-historical and linguistic aspects.

Preface     5
Introduction   11
Chapter 1: The Corpus   25
Chapter 2: The Archive of Royal Deeds   71
Chapter 3: The Royal Notaries   99
Chapter 4: Akkadian in Ugarit 139
Chapter 5: The Sheme of the Deeds 175
Chapter 6: The Formulary of the Deeds 211
Chapter 7: Scribal Habits and Notarial Tradition 257
Bibliographical Abbreviations 301
Bibliography of Works Cited 303
Indices 325

 

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