Re: Ugaritic Affiliations

"Peter T. Daniels" <grammatim@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Considering that you posted a list of 31 things that ends with the
three items that are unique to Ugaritic, what could that list of 31
things be, other than his suggesetion of what exists in Ugaritic?

It's a table of correspondences between the Ugaritic abjad and Colless's reconstruction of the 'picto-proto-alphabet'. If a Ugaritic letter had two elements of the latter corresponding to it, it might be entered twice for that very reason. It has just occurred to me that the 'o' representing the cuneiform letter might actually be the uraeus, so perhaps the text was not intended to read:

<quote>
$ (T) $ O_o $im$: sun (with serpent)

s_ o $ O_o $im$: sun (without serpent)
</quote> but actually <misquote>
$ (T) $ O_o $im$: sun (without serpent)

s_ o O_o $im$: sun (with serpent)
</misquote>
and then got incorrectly tidied up. Colless does mention problems with font changes.

This gives the normal complement of 30 Ugaritic characters in 31 lines of correspondences. However, it's rather a large correction to make.

Richard.

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