Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2015
Abstract
RS 94.2406 holds an important place among the epistolary texts in the Ugaritic language because of its generally good state of preservation and because of its extraordinary content: while traveling by ship from Ugarit to Anatolia, a queen of Ugarit, who does not identify herself by name, sends a letter back to one of her loyal servants in Ugarit, the Urtenu in whose dwelling the tablet was discovered, with instructions regarding his handling of certain of her affairs in the city that she had just left. To this letter, a certain Ilimilku adds a brief message of his own emphasizing the gravity of the situation. The present study deals with one aspect of the interpretation of this document that has hitherto received scant attention: the details of the sea voyage itself, of the first stage within the Cilician plain, from the coast inland to the town of Adana, and, finally, with the problems posed by the two following stages, named by the queen in her letter but whose location is today unknown.
Original Publication Citation
Sauvage, Caroline, and Dennis G. Pardee. “L’itinéraire maritime d’une reine d’Ougarit : note sur le texte RS 94.2406.” Syria. Archéologie, art et histoire, no. 92 (June 1, 2015): 239–54. https://doi.org/10.4000/syria.3115.
Digital Commons @ LMU & LLS Citation
Sauvage, Caroline and Pardee, Dennis G., "The maritime route for a Queen of Ugarit: Note on the RS 94.2406 text" (2015). Classics and Archaeology Faculty Works. 15.
https://digitalcommons.lmu.edu/classics_fac/15
