Studien Zur Ugaritischen Lexikographie, Mit Kulturund Religionsgeschichtlichen Parallelen.

• Author: Pardee, Dennis

Studien zur ugaritischen Lexikographie, mit kulturund religionsgeschichtlichen Parallelen: Beamte, Gotternamen, Gotterepitheta, Kultbegriffe, Metalle, Tiere, Verbalbegriffe. Neue vergleichbare Inschriften. By KJELL AARTUN. Teil II, A-B. 2 vols. Wiesbaden: HARRASSOWITZ VERLAG, 2006. Pp. xiii + 1297, plates. [euro]198.

In these two volumes, Aartun continues his individualistic approach to Ugaritic lexicography, to "die altere Runenschriff"/"Runensprache" (a.k.a. Trojan) and Etruskan, and to what he terms "inscriptions in multiple Semitic languages" (the first of these, for example, is presented as consisting of a true mixture of "Minoan Hieroglyphs," Etruscan, "Runic," and Linear A). Only the first 252 pages are devoted to Ugaritic matters, the rest being devoted to the topics...