Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Jim West <jwest AT Highland.Net>]

At 06:34 PM 6/19/00 +0200, you wrote:

>>> There is a Ugaritic text (KTU 1.78) taken to contain a report of an
>eclipse:
>>> 
>>What's your source for this text?  I ask because all I have access 
>>to at the moment is Gordon, and he uses his own numbering 
>>system.

here is the transcription.... from (KTU)

btt ym hdt
hyr 'rbt
shpsh tgrh
rshp

kdbm tbqrn
skn


by the way-- all texts ugaritic can be found at:
http://www.labherm.filol.csic.es/Es/LSecciones.html

follow the "banco de datos" link and you will gain access to a search engine
that will produce whatever text you are looking for.

if you - having found your tablet, next click on the vocabulary link-- you
will be offered a table where the various words of the tablet are defined.

best,

Jim

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